Many have speculated that concerns about player safety will lead to the imminent demise of football. It can’t be too imminent, because we officially have games scheduled for the 2030s!
Nebraska has now scheduled football games into the 2030s, when science fiction happens
Remember: No tailgating near the jetpack dock!
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Wednesday, Nebraska announced four future games. The Huskers will play Oklahoma in 2029 and 2030 and play Arizona in 2028 and 2031. According to FBSchedules.com, the latest game previously scheduled was a series between LSU and Oklahoma finishing in 2028. But now we’ve cracked open a new decade.
There is some sense here. Nebraska already has every non-conference game through 2019 scheduled, and entering Wednesday, already had a non-conference game with a power opponent every year until 2027, except for 2025.
Oklahoma is a historic rival that Nebraska wants to keep on its schedule from time to time, so, yeah, call the Sooners up. But they also have a nine-game conference schedule, and they’ve got games with Michigan booked in 2025 and 2026, and LSU in 2027 and 2028. So 2029-30 it is. And I guess Arizona will be the power opponent the year after that.
So, on the one hand, there is a legitimate reason for scheduling games for 2030 and 2031.
On the other hand, THAT’S LITERALLY 15 YEARS FROM NOW.
Here are some fun facts about these games.
- Some of the players in Nebraska-Arizona in 2031 are currently 2 years old.
- This is how different college football was 15 years ago: In 2001, Miami, a member of the Big East, went undefeated and won the national championship. Maryland won the ACC, Louisville won C-USA, BYU won the Mountain West, and weirdest of all, Illinois won the Big Ten.
- SB Nation and Facebook and all that stuff did not exist 15 years ago. Make sure to follow me on 2030’s hottest social media app, FlorpBorp, for updates about Nebraska-Arizona!
- Here are real words from the Wikipedia page for the year 2030: “Some researchers are aiming for the ability to regenerate human limbs to be achieved by this time.” So, if a Nebraska running back tears his ACL against Oklahoma, there’s a chance doctors will be able to just saw that baby off and pop on a freshly generated limb and have him back out for a game-winning touchdown.
- Furthermore: “Healthcare will become largely automated, with machines replacing 80% of doctors.” So, the doctors fitting players with regenerated limbs to get them back on the field might be cyborgs.
- Other real words from the 2030 Wikipedia page: “Self-driving vehicles will dominate the roads, and Elon Musk has projected that operating a non-self-driving vehicle on public roads may even be illegal by this time.” Keep this in mind while thinking about transport options to these games.
- The film Snowpiercer, in which the last surviving humans live on a train circling the globe and survive off bars made from cockroach protein, takes place in the year 2031. Also keep this in mind while thinking about transport options to these games.
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