Nebraska back on football schedule

Colorado is again on the UW football schedule, now Wyoming athletics director Tom Burman is bringing Nebraska back for the Cowboys.

Burman and University of Nebraska athletics director Tom Osborne announced jointly on Tuesday that the Cowboys and Huskers have signed a contract for a three-game football series to begin in Laramie on Sept. 24, 2011. The second and third games in the series are to be played in Lincoln on Aug. 31, 2013 and Sept. 17, 2016.

Nebraska’s trip to Wyoming in 2011 will be the first appearance ever by the Huskers in Laramie.

“It is exciting to play a program with the tradition of Nebraska, while at the same time renewing a regional series against an old rival,” said Burman. “I believe this is the kind of series our fans want us to play, and to be able to bring Nebraska to Laramie for the first time in history will be a special game for Cowboy fans.

“I want to thank Tom Osborne and Bo Pelini (Nebraska head football coach) for working with us to make this series a reality.”

The Cowboys and Huskers have not played each other since 1994 when Wyoming battled Nebraska in Lincoln’s Memorial Stadium before falling 42-32. The Huskers went on to win the 1994 National Championship. The Cowboys, led by then head coach Joe Tiller and future All-America wide receiver Marcus Harris, scored more points against NU than any other opponent in 1994.

Wyoming and Nebraska have played each other a total of five previous times -- all in Lincoln. Nebraska won each of those previous five meetings in 1934, 1968, 1983, 1984 and 1994.

In addition to the announcement of the Nebraska series, Wyoming also announced new series versus the University of Idaho of the Western Athletic Conference (WAC), and Southern Utah, a Football Championship Series (formerly NCAA I-AA) program.

Wyoming’s series versus Idaho will be a two-game contract starting on Sept. 22, 2012, in Moscow, Idaho. The Vandals will return to Laramie on Sept. 7, 2013.

Southern Utah and the Cowboys will play a single game in Wyoming’s War Memorial Stadium on Sept. 4, 2010.

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