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Huskers host Iowa on Black Friday among other changes in revamped 2021 Big Ten schedule | Football


Nov. 13: vs. Southeastern Louisiana 

If NU and Illinois do not play in Ireland, the game will likely be in Champaign, Illinois, because the Illini gave up the home game to make the overseas game work. It could be played on either Aug. 28 (Week 0) or the week of Sept. 4 (Week 1). 

Some of the changes stem from the Big Ten’s schedule shuffling for the 2020 season. In the 10-game iteration the league came up with to maximize flexibility — and then subsequently scrapped six days after announcing it — the conference flipped the location of Nebraska’s games against Wisconsin (to Lincoln) and Purdue (to West Lafayette, Indiana). 

Given that divisional games alternate locations each year, the flips meant that NU would be scheduled to host the Badgers and visit the Boilermakers three straight years (2019-21). 

Moos has made no secret about wanting to reverse the Big Ten’s 2017 decision to end the streak of the Huskers and Iowa playing on Black Friday, which normally comes as the last week of the regular season. 

The pandemic-shortened schedule in 2020 allowed NU and the Hawkeyes to still play on Black Friday, but the Huskers were originally slated to close the 2021 season against Minnesota before returning to the Iowa series on that weekend in 2022. 



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