Two Nebraska home games in 2013 will be played in primetime and televised nationally on the Big Ten Network. The Huskers’ season opener against Wyoming on Aug. 31 will kick off at 7 p.m. CT, and NU’s home game against Southern Miss on Sept. 7 is set for a 5 p.m. CT start.  BTN will televise a total of 12 primetime Big Ten games during the 2013 season.

The 2013 season will mark the seventh time since 2002 that Nebraska’s season opener has been played under the lights at Memorial Stadium, but the first time since 2010. Nebraska has won each of the six previous games, including victories in home night games in Pelini’s first three season openers as head coach in 2008, 2009 and 2010.

With each of the first two games of 2013 in the evening, this season will mark just the third time in school history Nebraska has opened with a pair of home night games. The two previous occurrences came in 2002 and 2005.

Nebraska is 37-5 all-time in night games at Memorial Stadium, including victories in each of its past 11 night games, dating back to 2008.

Nebraska quarterback Tommie Frazier, long ignored by the College Football Hall of Fame, has been elected to the prestigious group, a source told Sporting News Monday.

Frazier, who led the 1994 and 1995 Nebraska national championship teams, will be announced Tuesday as one of 12 new inductees. Frazier finished second to Eddie George in the 1995 Heisman Trophy race, and led the Huskers to a 38-point rout of Florida in the 1995 Fiesta Bowl National Championship Game.

The official announcement will come today at 10:30 AM Central time.

#Huskers will be gone from the field per NCAA rules.

Former QB and wide receiver Brion Carnes wrote on his Facebook page that he is leaving leaving the Nebraska football program and heading to Northern Iowa in Cedar Falls, IA. Carnes will be a junior. The 6’1, 190 pound appeared in three games at Nebraska in 2011 as the top backup to Taylor Martinez before switching to wide receiver last September. He didn’t play last season.

Chancellor Harvey Perlman says that under the College Football Playoff, he would like to see ex-coaches and ex-players have a deciding hand in the final four, which is much different than the NCAA basketball tournament committee which is made up of current conference commissioners and athletic directors from the top conferences. Perlman said, “You have to make the football committee one step removed from existing A.D.s.”

The NCAA Football Rules Committee has approved a measure that “social media designations such as URL’s and hashtags, are prohibited” on the playing field, end zone and sidelines. On the turf at Memorial Stadium, NU has #HUSKERS between the 20 and 30 yard lines.  That will be gone by the start of the season.