Call it the Battle of Route 18.
Rutgers and Monmouth will meet on the football field for the first time in history to kick off the 2020 season.
The game is scheduled for Saturday, Sept. 5, 2020 at HighPoint.com Stadium in Piscataway. It will be the first time Rutgers has played an in-state school since its last matchup with Princeton in 1980. Monmouth and Princeton will meet this September in what appears to be the first Division-1 game between in-state schools since that year.
The Big Ten has relaxed its prohibition on member schools playing Football Championship Subdivision (formerly known as Division-1AA) programs.