Iowa-Nebraska Friday Game OK'd By Big Ten

[JonDMiller]

IOWA CITY, Iowa – The Administrators Council of the Big Ten Conference has approved the Iowa and Nebraska recommendation to move the Saturday, Nov. 30, 2013 football game to Friday, Nov. 29, and to schedule the annual Hy-Vee Heroes Game on the Friday after Thanksgiving in 2014 (Nov. 28) and beyond. The approval was announced Tuesday by the Big Ten.



The third annual Hy-Vee Heroes Game will take place Friday, Nov. 29, 2013, in Lincoln. Start time and television information will be released at a later date. The teams met on the Friday following Thanksgiving in both 2011 (Lincoln) and 2012 (Iowa City).



“We’re excited about playing our annual football game with Nebraska on the Friday after Thanksgiving for a number of reasons,â€￾ said Gary Barta, UI’s director of athletics. “This provides the student-athletes who have already lost the opportunity to spend the holiday at home with their families two days away from football. In addition, the Friday television window provides great exposure for our program. We greatly appreciate the adjustments in schedules that our fans, and those who help us stage the game in Iowa City every other year, will have to make.â€￾



The Cornhuskers and Hawkeyes met in the Hy-Vee Heroes Game on Black Friday in each of the past two seasons, with Nebraska winning 20-7 in 2011 in Lincoln and 13-7 last November in Iowa City. Both games were televised by ABC. The Hy-Vee Heroes Game has raised $20,000 for the American Red Cross over the last two years.



Nebraska holds a 28-12-3 advantage in the series. The teams have met just eight times since 1946.


Iowa and Nebraska met eight consecutive years (1891-98) on Thanksgiving Day, with those eight games played in either Omaha or Council Bluffs.

 

[ICHawk24]

Nice.

 

[CPHAWK82]

Good to hear. It's nice to have a built-in yearly excuse to not shop with the wife.

 

[pin2win]

Makes for a lot of travel but its great to have an excuse to drink beer all day friday

 

[okeefe4prez]

Makes for a lot of travel but its great to have an excuse to drink beer all day friday

Some people on this site are recovering alcoholics. Please try to show some class.

 

[pin2win]

no way they can be hawk fans and be recovering alcoholics

 

[bws258]

I don't like it, but whatever, I'll just plan on taking the PTO every other year

the upside is we get an extra day to get ready for the B1G championship

 

[GoHawks24]

So the date that Kirk totally gets pwnd by Bo is set in stone for the foreseeable future. Neat.

 

[homes]

“We’re excited about playing our annual football game with Nebraska on the Friday after Thanksgiving for a number of reasons,” said Gary Barta, UI’s director of athletics. “This provides the student-athletes who have already lost the opportunity to spend the holiday at home with their families two days away from football. In addition, the Friday television window provides great exposure for our program. We greatly appreciate the adjustments in schedules that our fans, and those who help us stage the game in Iowa City every other year, will have to make.”

So Iowa is doing this to allow the football players to spend Saturday and Sunday away from football? After last season, they had a lot more time than Saturday and Sunday after Thanksgiving to spend away from football. That didn't seem to work, did it?

Here's my simple advice. Win some freakin' football games, and leave the fake justifications for doing something to the Iowa States of the world.

 

[MoseSchrute]

So the date that Kirk totally gets pwnd by Bo is set in stone for the foreseeable future. Neat.

Yep. Real great exposure when you're playing the role of the Washington Generals every year.

 

[Billso]

So Iowa is doing this to allow the football players to spend Saturday and Sunday away from football? After last season, they had a lot more time than Saturday and Sunday after Thanksgiving to spend away from football. That didn't seem to work, did it?

Here's my simple advice. Win some freakin' football games, and leave the fake justifications for doing something to the Iowa States of the world.

He mad.

 

[StickUP]

Hope they at least move the game to later in the day.

 

[treychase]

Other than the nearly automatic W Nebraska will get each season I don't understand why they'd want this game on that day. I'd bet if we asked Husker fans, they'd prefer Wisconsin in that spot & I think it ultimately ends up that way.

 

[Dunbar]

Other than the nearly automatic W Nebraska will get each season I don't understand why they'd want this game on that day. I'd bet if we asked Husker fans, they'd prefer Wisconsin in that spot & I think it ultimately ends up that way.

Because it's tradition. NU's played on Black Friday (or 'Husker Friday' as I call it) since 1990. But to your point, I agree with you, right now - would rather they play the likes of Michigan (never gonna happen) or Wisconsin. Playing Oklahoma as the last game of the season, usually for all the marbles in the Big 8, meant a big game. The Hawkeyes just don't have the fire in the belly right now. Will it change? I hope so.

 

[NCHawker]

Now just get rid of that sponsor. Hy-Vee ? really?

 

[homes]

He mad.

Going 4-8 does that. I'm toying with the idea of benign acceptance this season.

 

[taffaej]

Black friday just got blacker

 

[hawkeyebob62]

Some people on this site are recovering alcoholics. Please try to show some class.

He didn't specify high-test or low-test. O'Douls and that species are perfectly acceptable.

 

[hawkinn3]

Id like to win this game one of these years.

 

[Eda]

You fools that are complaining about not winning it or an auto win for Nebby are redonkulous.
It's only been two years (and last years game could've gone either way).
The fact that we'll be playing on Black Friday is a great opportunity. And it's a good possibility that we win it this year. And next year the game at Kinnick decides who goes to Indy. Book it boyz!

Final note: let's drop the lame sauce "Heros Game" name.