The Gophers’ fall football schedule has had two games moved from Saturday to Friday night, the Big Ten Conference announced this week.

Minnesota will host play host Nebraska at 7 p.m. Friday, Oct. 17, at Huntington Bank Stadium, and the U will travel to Oregon for an 8 p.m. CT kickoff on Friday, Nov. 14 at Autzen Stadium in Eugene. Both of those games will be on FOX.

The Gophers’ season and home opener remains on a Thursday and the Big Ten said that kickoff against Buffalo will be at 7 p.m. Aug. 28. The U will kick off its Week 2 matchup against Northwestern State at 11 a.m. on Saturday, Sept. 6.

Minnesota’s biggest nonconference game of the season at California will kick off at 9:30 p.m. CT Saturday, Sept. 13, the conference said Thursday.

The Big Ten also shared that Minnesota’s homecoming game against Purdue will start at 6 or 6:30 p.m. on Saturday, Oct. 11.

Six additional kickoff times will be announced later: Rutgers (Sept. 27); at Ohio State (Oct. 4); at Iowa (Oct. 25); Michigan State (Nov. 1); Northwestern at Wrigley Field in Chicago (Nov. 22); and Wisconsin (Nov. 29).

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