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per Coyle's blog:
In a similar vein, we have received questions about the recent announcement that our football team hosting Indiana in a Friday night Big Ten game next season (Oct. 26, 2018). This will be the first Friday night football game for the Gophers in nearly 15 years, and the first-ever in TCF Bank Stadium.
The Big Ten began expanding its broadcast schedule to include Friday night games this season, the realization of a plan that was in motion when I became AD. We expressed a preference to either play Friday night games on the road or during MEA weekend, a weekend where high school football does not play on Fridays in Minnesota. That would still be our preference but those decisions are made by the conference. We will honor our responsibility as a member of the Big Ten and play the conference schedule we are assigned by the league.
It's worth noting, the weekend we were assigned to play is traditionally a playoff weekend for Minnesota high school football, meaning that there are limited Friday night games that week.
http://www.gophersports.com/genrel/103117aaa.html
Go Gophers!!
In a similar vein, we have received questions about the recent announcement that our football team hosting Indiana in a Friday night Big Ten game next season (Oct. 26, 2018). This will be the first Friday night football game for the Gophers in nearly 15 years, and the first-ever in TCF Bank Stadium.
The Big Ten began expanding its broadcast schedule to include Friday night games this season, the realization of a plan that was in motion when I became AD. We expressed a preference to either play Friday night games on the road or during MEA weekend, a weekend where high school football does not play on Fridays in Minnesota. That would still be our preference but those decisions are made by the conference. We will honor our responsibility as a member of the Big Ten and play the conference schedule we are assigned by the league.
It's worth noting, the weekend we were assigned to play is traditionally a playoff weekend for Minnesota high school football, meaning that there are limited Friday night games that week.
http://www.gophersports.com/genrel/103117aaa.html
Go Gophers!!