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Huskers’ latest 2022 schedule tweak: A Friday night game at Rutgers in early October | Football



Add another change to Nebraska’s 2022 football schedule, though this one isn’t quite as significant. 

The Huskers announced Wednesday that an early-October game at Rutgers will be played on Friday, Oct. 7, rather than Saturday, Oct. 8. 

That means Nebraska will play on a Friday night in New Jersey for the second time in three seasons. 

In 2020, NU closed its pandemic-shortened, eight-game season with a Friday night game against the Scarlet Knights before opting not to play in a bowl game. 

Nebraska hosts Indiana on Oct. 1 and then will have a short turnaround before the trip to the East Coast. After that, NU plays a second straight road game on Oct. 15 at Purdue. 

It’s never ideal to have to make a long road trip on a short week, but the Huskers do have the benefit of a long stretch at home before the trek. In fact, when Nebraska gets back from its Aug. 27 season-opener against Northwestern in Dublin, Ireland, it doesn’t go on the road again until the trip to Rutgers. NU plays home games against North Dakota, Georgia Southern and Oklahoma before a bye week, then is at Memorial Stadium for a fourth straight game to face Indiana before hitting the road for back-to-back weeks.  

The change also means NU will play two Friday games in the 2022 season, adding Rutgers to the customary Black Friday tilt at Iowa on Nov. 25. 



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