The last time Northwestern played a home football game against Nebraska that fans could attend, it was an October day, it was homecoming and a capacity crowd of more than 47,000 saw the Wildcats pull off a comeback victory in overtime that helped propel them to a Big Ten championship game.
Saturday, Northwestern is playing its home game against the Cornhuskers in Dublin in Ireland. It's an event that is placing significant demands on both schools in exchange for almost unfettered national TV exposure on the sport’s opening weekend and a largely expenses-paid opportunity to engage donors and fans while giving the players a brief taste of Irish culture before heading back across an ocean and half of the USA.