This is a list of Nebraska Cornhuskers football honors and awards. Nebraska players have won twenty-nine major awards, including three Heisman Trophies, and the school's nine Outland Trophy winners are the most of any program.
Conference awards.
Athlete of the year.
Seven Nebraska players have been named conference male athlete of the year, across all sports.
First-team all-conference selections.
Nebraska has had 523 first-team all-conference selections: 446 in the Missouri Valley Intercollegiate Athletic Association and Big Eight, fifty-nine in the Big 12, and eighteen in the Big Ten.
Retired numbers and jerseys.
Nebraska has permanently retired the number of two players: Tom Novak, the only four-time all-conference selection in Nebraska history; and Bob Brown, the first All-American coached by Bob Devaney. Novak's no. 60 and Brown's no. 64 have not been worn since being retired.
Nebraska has retired the jersey of twenty-three other players, allowing the numbers to remain in circulation. The name and number of each honoree is displayed below the North Stadium press box at Memorial Stadium. Each major award winner has his jersey retired, typically in an on-field ceremony following the end of his collegiate career. In 2017, the school recognized eight early College Football Hall of Fame inductees, including Guy Chamberlin, whose career predated the use of numbers on jerseys.