Nebraska Football: Huskers News Announce Their September 20th Friday Night Prime Time Matchup

What would be better than a 7 p.m. college football matchup on a Friday night than watching Nebraska and Illinois battle it out on FOX?

Well since the answer is that obviously nothing could be better than a 7 p.m. matchup between the Huskers and the Fighting Bielemas on a Friday then that is exactly what you are going to get.

Nebraska announced today that Nebraska and Illinois will be a part of FOX’s new Friday Night Football package on September 20th. The game is slotted for 7 p.m.

We now have two prime time games so far announced for the 2024 Nebraska football season. This matchup against Illinois and the game against Colorado.

It could be worse. We could be Rutgers who is going to play USC at 11 p.m. local Rutgers time on October 25th.

Brutal.

Here is the Statement from the Nebraska Athletic Department:

Huskers to Host Illinois in Friday Evening Contest

The Big Ten Conference and FOX have announced details of the network’s Friday Night Football package for the 2024 season, including Nebraska’s home matchup at Memorial Stadium against Illinois.

The Huskers’ game with the Illini will be played on Friday, Sept. 20 at 7 p.m. CT, with the game televised to a national audience on FOX. The two schools were originally scheduled to play on Saturday, Sept. 21 in Lincoln.

This is the second Nebraska home game selected for prime-time national coverage in the season’s first four weeks. Earlier this month, NBC announced it would televise Nebraska’s game against Colorado on Saturday, Sept. 7 with kickoff at 6:30 p.m.

Nebraska and Illinois will be meeting on Friday night for the second straight season and for the third time since 2017. Nebraska was victorious in games in Champaign in both 2017 and 2023. It is also the third consecutive season Nebraska has played a Friday night game after winning at Rutgers in 2022.

Aside from its traditional Black Friday games at Memorial Stadium, this will be Nebraska’s first weekday home game since Sept. 20, 2001, when Nebraska hosted Rice. The game was postponed for five days following the events of Sept. 11, 2001.

The Big Ten and its television partners are expected to announce additional game times and broadcast information before the end of May.