| Many followers of college football do not realize | | | | The ongoing series has now reached a total of |
| that the football rivalry game played between the | | | | 103 games through 2009 and the Cornhuskers |
| University of Missouri (Mizzou for short) Tigers | | | | have a commanding lead over the Mizzou Tigers |
| and the University of Nebraska Cornhuskers for | | | | with a record in this rivalry game of 64-36-3. |
| the Victory Bell trophy is the second oldest rivalry | | | | For much of the series history the overall |
| within the Big 12 Conference. The University of | | | | standings were very close. Up until 1978 the |
| Missouri and the University of Kansas rivalry | | | | University of Nebraska held a narrow lead by a |
| predates the Cornhuskers and Tigers rivalry by | | | | margin of only five games before racking off |
| one year and five days. In addition to being the | | | | wins during each of the next twenty four |
| second oldest rivalry in their conference this is | | | | contests. On October 11, 2003 at a home game in |
| actually the third oldest rivalry west of Mississippi | | | | Columbia, MO the Mizzou football program |
| River even though most casual football fans that | | | | captured its first win against in this lopsided rivalry |
| are not from the area do not normally associate | | | | in 25 years. This particular upset came with the |
| these two programs as rivals. | | | | Cornhuskers entering the game ranked number |
| The Victory Bell is the name of the trophy | | | | 10 in the country while the Missouri Tigers were |
| awarded to the annual victor of this game. The | | | | unranked going into the contest. |
| idea for the bell trophy was declared by former | | | | Not surprisingly Missouri fans rushed the field, the |
| University of Missouri athletic director Chester | | | | goal posts were torn down, and students |
| Brewer in 1926. The Victory Bell trophy is a | | | | celebrated late into the night. For almost all of the |
| traveling trophy which means that the winning | | | | exuberant students at the Columbia campus the |
| program gets to keep the trophy until it is played | | | | October, 2003 game was the first win for the |
| for again in the subsequent game held the | | | | Tigers in this rivalry in their lifetimes. Nearly five |
| following season. The scores from every game | | | | years later on October 4, 2008 Mizzou would get |
| since 1926 have been engraved on the Victory | | | | its first win in Lincoln, NE in 30 years. Prior to this |
| Bell. | | | | victory the last Tigers win in Lincoln had occurred |
| The first meeting between these two programs | | | | when NFL Hall of Famer Kellen Winslow Senior |
| that are 320 miles apart occurred way back on | | | | was playing for the Missouri Tigers. So much time |
| November 5, 1892. The game was played in | | | | had passed that the son of Kellen Winslow (Kellen |
| Omaha, Nebraska (the University of Nebraska is | | | | Winslow Junior) was already playing in the NFL. |
| based in Lincoln, NE) and won by the Cornhuskers. | | | | |
