COLUMBUS, Ohio — Northwestern football is set to unveil its new $862 million football stadium, Ryan Field, on Oct. 2 this season when the Wildcats host Penn State. <\/p>\n
The team\u2019s first two games will be held at Martin Stadium, a smaller, on-campus stadium where the team has played the majority of its games the last two seasons.<\/p>\n
The stadium will hold 35,000 people. <\/p>\n
Ohio State and Northwestern played the 2024 game between the two teams at Wrigley Field, as the expected attendance would\u2019ve certainly been too much for Martin Stadium to handle. <\/p>\n
The Buckeyes will host the Wildcats this season, but will play at Northwestern in 2027. That game will almost certainly be at the new venue in Evanston, Illinois.<\/p>\n
Two former Buckeyes included in massive NBA trade<\/p>\n
The Washington Wizards and Dallas Mavericks completed a massive trade on Wednesday, as an eight-player swap was centered around Anthony Davis heading to Washington. <\/p>\n
D\u2019Angelo Russell and Malaki Branham swapped sides, as Russell is headed to the Wizards and Branham is headed to the Mavericks. <\/p>\n
Russell played just one season for Ohio State in 2014-15, and was the Big Ten Freshman of the Year. He was a Consensus first-team All-American as well. <\/p>\n
Branham also played one season at Ohio State from 2021-2022, and was a first-round pick of the Spurs in 2022. He was the Big Ten Freshman of the Year and Third-team All-Big Ten. A former Ohio Mr. Basketball winner in 2021, he attended St. Vincent-St. Mary High School in Akron.<\/p>\n
Key dates2026 NFL Scouting Combine:\u00a018 days, Feb. 23- March 2, 2026Ohio State first spring practice:\u00a033 days, March 10, 2026Ohio State Spring Game:\u00a072 days, April 18, 20262026 NFL Draft:\u00a077 days, April 23-25, 2026Ohio State vs. Ball State (Season Opener):\u00a0212 days, Sept. 5, 2026The Game 2026:\u00a0296 days, Nov. 28, 2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"COLUMBUS, Ohio — Northwestern football is set to unveil its new $862 million football stadium, Ryan Field, on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":733809,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[1675,7,49,48,1676],"class_list":["post-733808","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ncaa-football","tag-buckeyes","tag-football","tag-ncaa","tag-ncaa-football","tag-wrigley-field"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116024668809853394","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/733808","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=733808"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/733808\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/733809"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=733808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=733808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=733808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}