Thirty-eight days and a lifetime of Twitter rumors later, Northwestern will host Maryland on Oct. 24 to open its 2020 season. The conference’s eight-game schedule was revealed Saturday morning on FOX Big Noon Kickoff, and this time it feels real, not like we’re just going through the motions.
The third-edition schedule resembles the NU’s original 2020 conference slate, at least in terms of opponents. Said foes should be easier than the prior 10-game COVID conference-only schedule, when the Wildcats were set to face Penn State and Wisconsin the first two weeks and close with Minnesota and Michigan. So much for those brutal bookends.