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Crouch, Grange and a nearby YMCA: A look at NU football’s most memorable season openers away from home | Football




Steven M. Sipple, Parker Gabriel and Chris Basnett take stock of the Nebraska football team midway through preseason camp. The running back picture is beginning to clear up, but four contenders remain. There are injury concerns at tight end and on the offensive line. Two freshmen are battling it out to be Adrian Martinez’s primary backup. All that and more on the latest edition of the Husker Extra podcast. 







Two weeks from Friday, the Nebraska football team will board a charter flight and make the trek to Champaign, Illinois, for the 2021 season opener against the Illini.

In the history of a program that dates back to 1890, the trip will mark the 29th time a Husker team has opened a season with a game not played in Lincoln.

What follows is a look at some of the notable season openers on the road for the Huskers, with a cast of characters that includes Red Grange, Eric Crouch, a nearby YMCA, and many others.

We’re including the three neutral site Kickoff Classics the Huskers played in (1983, 1988, 1994) because what Nebraska fan doesn’t enjoy looking back at the pastings of Penn State (’83) and West Virginia (’94)?

Sit back and take a trip down memory lane with some of the most notable road trips in Husker football history.

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Aug. 28, 2021 (at Illinois): This game was originally scheduled for Dublin, Ireland, before the pandemic threw a wrench into everyone’s plans. Instead, the Huskers will open on the road with a divisional opponent with a new head coach in Bret Bielema that has plenty of past success against NU.

Oct. 24, 2020 (Ohio State 52, Nebraska 17): Speaking of pandemics, the Big Ten gifted the Huskers a trip to Ohio State to begin last year after the league postponed the season, then said there wouldn’t be a season, then finally deciding to play a season. NU started things off in an empty Ohio Stadium by marching 75 yards in four plays, including a 47-yard run from Luke McCaffrey, but OSU’s talent eventually took over.



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