Tom Dienhart, BTN.com Senior Writer, November 30, 2012
Scheduling is everything in college football. And Nebraska?s 2013 slate figures to give the Cornhuskers a big advantage. Nebraska will open next season with five home games, not venturing on the road until playing at Purdue on Oct. 12. In all, the Huskers will play eight home games in 2013. That?s quite an advantage. Nebraska also played eight home games in 2008.
The extra home game came about when Southern Miss opted to sell back its home game to Nebraska, as the Hattiesburg, Miss., school faces a budget crunch and needs the cash. The game now will be played Sept. 7 in Lincoln, Neb. According to reports, Nebraska will pay Southern Miss $2.125 million to visit.
Here's the full schedule from Huskers.com:
| Date | Opponent | Location | Time |
| Sat, Aug. 31 | Wyoming | Memorial Stadium | TBA |
| Sat, Sep. 07 | Southern Miss | Memorial Stadium | TBA |
| Sat, Sep. 14 | UCLA | Memorial Stadium | TBA |
| Sat, Sep. 21 | South Dakota State | Memorial Stadium | TBA |
| Sat, Oct. 05 | Illinois | Memorial Stadium | TBA |
| Sat, Oct. 12 | Purdue | at West Lafayette, Ind. | TBA |
| Sat, Oct. 26 | Minnesota | at Minneapolis, Minn. | TBA |
| Sat, Nov. 02 | Northwestern | Memorial Stadium | TBA |
| Sat, Nov. 09 | Michigan | at Ann Arbor, Mich. | TBA |
| Sat, Nov. 16 | Michigan State | Memorial Stadium | TBA |
| Sat, Nov. 23 | Penn State | at State College, Pa. | TBA |
| Sat, Nov. 30 | Iowa | Memorial Stadium | TBA |
I wonder what Nebraska's Legends Division rivals and other Big Ten schools think of this. What do you think about it? Tell me below.
And any thoughts you had of college football being a level playing field should be further obliterated. In fact, college sports has the most uneven playing field of any sport in America, as some teams can afford to play eight home games while other have as few as five or six.
Imagine this happening in, say, the NFL. It wouldn?t, of course.
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