When was the last time Nebraska was a Big Ten home favorite of 10+ points or more?

[Adolph Coors]

2014 to Minnesota

ugh i was there

 

[Cornicator]

Can’t find the line but you’re thinking of 2011 NW was 3-5 and Nebraska was 7-1 so Nebraska was likely a big favorite.

Honestly, I think we were about a 17 pt favorite. But IDK how you find 15 years old betting lines?

Huskers finished with 26 first downs, 520 yards, and lost due to 6 turnovers.

I think at one point, Northwestern held a 21-10 lead with only 4 first downs and 96 total yards.

 

[Bulldog10]

Honestly, I think we were about a 17 pt favorite. But IDK how you find 15 years old betting lines?

We were favored to win the B10 in 2011… that seems impossible to me…

 

[Cavalot]

Chat GPT

I dug through contemporary box scores, game recaps, betting-odds sites and archives but could not find a definitive, contemporaneous sportsbook point spread published for the Nov. 5, 2011 Nebraska-Northwestern game that I can confidently cite.


What I found

• Multiple game recaps and box scores (ESPN, HuskerMax, Northwestern athletic site) confirm the final: Northwestern 28, Nebraska 25. ESPN.com+1
• Several odds/lines aggregators and archives include historical matchup pages or generic templates but don’t show the actual pregame spread for that specific date in 2011 (or show incomplete/templated data). VegasInsider+1

If you want a best-effort estimate

• Nebraska entered that game ranked #9 and playing at home, so sportsbooks almost certainly installed Nebraska as the favorite. Based on typical market behavior for a top-10 home team vs. an underdog in 2011, the pregame spread was plausibly somewhere in the range of Nebraska −6 to −14. That is an estimate only, not a documented line.

If you want the exact published line, I can continue digging into these specific sources (I’ll need to search archives that sometimes require paywalls or library access):

• Lincoln Journal Star (print/archives for the week of Nov 5, 2011)
• Sportsbook archives (OddsPortal / Covers / VegasInsider historical pages)
• Newspaper.com / ProQuest news archives for local and national sports wires