Nebraska Football Preview 2025: Season Prediction, Win Total, What Will Happen

As someone of a certain age, it seems insane to say this.

Nebraska - in football - could be this year’s Indiana, and that’s a good thing.

We all have to do a wee bit of roll-slowing here. The talent level has definitely been cranked up in a big way, but a lot of the best guys are still very young and very unproven.

This is still the Nebraska, though, that came WAY too close to a total collapse over the second half of the season. It still has to prove it can land the close game plane on a regular basis without crashing into the terminal, and it’s still nowhere near the level of the star programs in the Big Ten.

But there’s no Ohio State or Oregon to deal with. There’s no Indiana or - this year, this really matters - Illinois, either. Michigan, Iowa, and USC are home games, and there’s a week off before going to Penn State.

So the projected win total being set here comes with a caveat. The schedule is good enough for Nebraska to catch fire and win ten regular season games. There’s a real, honest no-smoke-blowing chance the Huskers can get to the College Football Playoff as an at-large team.

And there’s also a chance the Nebraska still hasn’t quite fixed the program-crippling glitch and loses to USC, Iowa, Michigan State, Minnesota, and UCLA in painfully close thrillers.

The 50/50 games here mean more than they do for most teams, because, really, they are coin-flip toss-ups. But if you want to sell the idea that this is about 1.5 games too low, we’re buying.

Set The Nebraska Cornhuskers Win Total At … 7

Likely Wins: Akron, Houston Christian

50/50 Games: Cincinnati (in Kansas City), Iowa, at Maryland, Michigan State, Minnesota, Northwestern, at UCLA, USC

Likely Losses: Michigan, at Penn State

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