{"id":632518,"date":"2026-05-09T08:14:21","date_gmt":"2026-05-09T08:14:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/632518\/"},"modified":"2026-05-09T08:14:21","modified_gmt":"2026-05-09T08:14:21","slug":"hawkeyes-to-play-two-friday-night-football-games-in-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/632518\/","title":{"rendered":"Hawkeyes to play two Friday night football games in 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">IOWA CITY, Iowa (KCRG) &#8211; The Hawkeye football team will play two Friday games during the 2026 season, the Big Ten Conference announced Friday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Iowa\u2019s road game at Washington has been moved to Friday, Oct. 9, from Husky Stadium in Seattle. The evening contest will be televised nationally on FOX or FS1. A start time has not been determined.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">It will be the Hawkeyes\u2019 first game in Husky Stadium since 1963.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Iowa and Nebraska will continue their annual tradition of playing on Black Friday. The Huskers and Hawkeyes will meet in Iowa City on Friday, Nov. 27.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Game time and television information for the Nebraska contest, along with select other Hawkeye games, will be announced by the conference and network partners later this month.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 KCRG. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"IOWA CITY, Iowa (KCRG) &#8211; The Hawkeye football team will play two Friday games during the 2026 season,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":632519,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[24319,18495,1607,2662,399,273363,52214,119594,398,396,397,99,2002,61901],"class_list":["post-632518","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ncaa-football","tag-big-ten","tag-big-ten-football","tag-college-football","tag-college-sports","tag-football","tag-hawkeye-football","tag-husky-stadium","tag-iowa-football","tag-ncaa","tag-ncaa-football","tag-ncaafootball","tag-sports","tag-washington","tag-washington-huskies-football"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/632518","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=632518"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/632518\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/632519"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=632518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=632518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=632518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}