Nebraska Athletic Director Shawn Eichorst says he will do everything he can to maintain the tradition of playing the Friday after Thanksgiving, which the Huskers have done each year since 1990.
On Thursday, Eichorst issued a statement saying “I want to clarify Nebraska’s position regarding the dates of our season-ending football games in 2020 and 2021 as announced earlier this week by the Big Ten Conference. At this time no final decision has been made on what dates these two games will actually be played."
The schedule released this week has Nebraska facing Minnesota on the Saturday after Black Friday both years. "As in past years, the Big Ten releases opponent matchups and typically assigns these match-ups to Saturday. That has been the case in the past when we agreed to move our season ending games against Iowa from Saturday to Friday. “Moving forward we will do everything possible to maintain our tradition of playing games on the Friday after Thanksgiving. We look forward to playing Iowa on the Friday after Thanksgiving through 2019.”