According to a report here (http://www.fbschedules.com/2015/08/stanford-updates-future-non-conference-football-schedule/), the 2020, 2021, and 2022 games scheduled with Stanford have been cancelled. So we'll play in Evanston this year, in Stanford in 2019, and that's it. It cites the Big Ten moving to a 9-game conference schedule as the reason.
NU, Stanford cancel future games
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This speaks to the difficulty of trying to get seven home games every year when you alternatively have five Big Ten road games. Without FCS games, that gets a lot tougher. Add in a Wrigley commitment and it really gets tricky.
Still seems short sighted. From a recruiting pool perspective and national visbility, Stanford would seem to be a non-con series to preserve. Of course, I also am biased since I'm now CaliCat, rather than RmndCat, and so I lose some rare opportunities to see the Cats close to home.
Games have to be cancelled and with the new 9 game BIG schedule, getting to a bowl game would be compromised by having more than one Big 5 game OOC. And likely other Big 5 conferences will go the route of 9 conference games as well which will lead to further scheduling problems
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