Northwestern and Stanford are now scheduled to play just twice after originally agreeing to a series that would feature six games. First reported by FBSchedules.com, Stanford will travel to Evanston to open the 2015 season and the Wildcats will go west in 2019.
In 2011, Northwestern and Stanford settled on a four-game series from 2019-2022. The next year, the two schools added home-and-home games for 2015 and 2016, making for six total games from 2015-2022.
The original report cites the Big Ten's move to a nine-game conference schedule caused the cancelation. Fox Sports' Stewart Mandel reported during Big Ten Media Days in July that Fitzgerald and the other Big Ten coaches voted against going to a nine-game schedule.