IOWA CITY — Football programs at Iowa and Nebraska played side-by-side in different conferences for more than 100 years, ignoring each other with indifference and slight disdain. That changed in 2011 when Nebraska joined the Big Ten. The league super-glued the programs together as potential rivals. Big Ten officials placed the teams in the same division, [...]

CHICAGO — Nebraska’s first venture into Big Ten land ended with neither triumph nor failure. There were the high moments in the Cornhuskers’ 9-4 season, such as a 24-3 pasting of eventual Legends Division champion Michigan State and beating Ohio State in the greatest comeback in school history. But there were downers as well in a [...]