[Husker] Nebraska to play Northern Illinois in 2016 (at Soldier Field), 2017, and 2019

[George Rapp]

http://www.huskers.com/ViewArticle.dbml?SPSID=1&SPID=22&DB_LANG=C&ATCLID=205830323&DB_OEM_ID=100

Interesting connection: Northern Illinois is in the Orange Bowl thanks to
Nebraska losing to Wisconsin in the B1G Championship. Wisconsin, being an
unranked champion of an automatic qualifying conference, created an opening
in a BCS bowl for a non-automatic-qualifying conference champion ranked in
the top 16 (Northern Illinois is #15 in the final regular season BCS).  Had
Nebraska won, the BCS at-large bid would likely have gone to Oklahoma.

Wonder if Northern Illinois signed the contract with Nebraska as a way of
saying thanks?  8^)

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