Nebraska football scheduled to play two Friday games in 2025
LINCOLN, Neb. — Nebraska will play at Minnesota on Friday night in Week 7 of the 2025 football season, among two Friday games for the Huskers that have been assigned kickoff times and TV networks.
The Oct. 17 meeting in Minneapolis is among five Big Ten Friday night games selected by Fox before Thanksgiving weekend. It will kick off at 7 p.m. (CT). The game marks the second consecutive weeknight kickoff for Nebraska at Minnesota.
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The Gophers beat the Huskers 13-10 on a Thursday night in Matt Rhule's Nebraska coaching debut in 2023 at Huntington Bank Stadium.
Also announced, the Nebraska-Iowa Black Friday clash on Nov. 28 will kick off at 11 a.m. on CBS, a return to the early time slot after the Huskers and Hawkeyes played at night as Big Ten rivals for the first time in 2024. CBS will also air the Week 4 Michigan at Nebraska game at 2:30 p.m.
TV networks on Thursday unveiled times and networks for games through Week 3 and other special dates.
Nebraska also learned that the Big Ten Network will televise its home opener against Akron on Sept. 6 at 6:30 p.m., and the Week 3 game against Houston Christian will kick off at 11 a.m. on FS1.
The Huskers' Aug. 28 opener at Arrowhead Stadium in Kansas City against Cincinnati had already been announced for 8 p.m. on ESPN — the first appearance for Nebraska on ESPN since the Wisconsin game in 2022.
Aside from the traditional Black Friday, Nebraska has played Friday games in the Big Ten in each of the past three seasons. It won at Rutgers in 2022 and at Illinois in 2023 before the Illini beat Nebraska in overtime last year at Memorial Stadium.
Nebraska athletic director Troy Dannen, after the 2024 game, requested that the Big Ten no longer schedule Friday games in Lincoln — other than the regular-season finale against Iowa — because of logistical issues that they create on campus.
Minnesota, in the first two seasons of the Big Ten's media-rights contract with Fox, did not play a Friday night game. The Gophers will also play this year at Oregon on a Friday in Week 12. Other Big Ten Friday nights on Fox include Iowa at Rutgers in Week 4, Northwestern at USC in Week 11 and Washington at UCLA in Week 13.
The date change of the Minnesota game creates a short turnaround for the Huskers after a trip to Maryland in their only back-to-back weeks on the road in the 2025 season.
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