Notre Dame played Navy in a 2012 game in Dublin, Ireland at Aviva Stadium.
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Nebraska football’s big trip got delayed by a year, but the Cornhuskers are going to play in Ireland, after all.
The school announced Thursday that NU is opening the 2022 football season in the Aer Lingus College Football Classic at Aviva Stadium in Dublin, Ireland, against Northwestern on Aug. 27, 2022.
The Huskers, of course, were supposed to open this coming season across the Atlantic against Illinois, but that game was moved stateside, to Champaign, Illinois, due to continued concerns and uncertainty related to the coronavirus pandemic.
Now it will be a different Big Ten West Division foe that Nebraska opens 2022 against.
The move requires some schedule rearranging, too.
Nebraska and Northwestern were originally slated to play Oct. 8, 2022 in Evanston, Illinois. Now, it’s a Week O game. In addition, the Huskers are set to host FCS North Dakota at Memorial Stadium on Sept. 3.
This fall, Nebraska moved its schedule around so as not to sit out Week 1 after playing Week 0.
Nebraska’s preference appears to be keeping the 2022 game against North Dakota as scheduled.
Unlike the 2021 slate, Nebraska is scheduled to be home early and often after the trip to Ireland. NU follows the scheduled Sept. 3 date against UND with a Sept. 10 home game against Georgia Southern, a Sept. 17 home game against Oklahoma and then a road trip to Rutgers on Sept. 24 before hosting Indiana on Oct. 1.
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