{"id":804952,"date":"2026-03-10T17:27:41","date_gmt":"2026-03-10T17:27:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/804952\/"},"modified":"2026-03-10T17:27:41","modified_gmt":"2026-03-10T17:27:41","slug":"6-home-games-for-loper-football-in-26-april-scrimmage-against-minnesota-mankato","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/804952\/","title":{"rendered":"6 home games for Loper football in \u201926, April scrimmage against Minnesota-Mankato"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Nebraska Kearney football team will play six home games this fall and kickoffs 2026 with a spring scrimmage in Iowa.<\/p>\n

The Lopers\u00a0face Minnesota State on April 11 (Saturday) at Sergeant-Bluff Luton\u00a0High, located just outside of Sioux City. Things begin at 2 p.m. with no admission being charged; the format will be determined closer to April. UNK previously scrimmaged Concordia-St. Paul (2024) and Sioux Falls (2025) in the spring. The Mavericks went 10-4 in 2025 and lost to eventual national champion Ferris (Mich.) State in the regional final.<\/p>\n

Next, UNK has its own \u201cspring game\u201d on April 18 (Saturday) at 1 p.m. with the 16th-annual Loper\u00a0Backers<\/a>\u00a0set for April 23 (Thursday). Spring practice starts on March 24 (Tuesday) after UNK\u2019s Spring Break.<\/p>\n

Finally, fall camp begins August 3 (Monday) with UNK hosting Wayne State on August 27 (Thursday) at 6 p.m. to start the regular season. This is the Lopers\u00a0first home Thursday game since 2022. The other changes from the 2025 schedule are site locations with UNK and Fort Hays State also moving their game from the third to the 11th week. That allows the programs to stay away from a late season bye.<\/p>\n

2026 Fall Schedule (All times subject to change)
Aug. 27 (Thurs.)\u00a0 Wayne State (6 p.m.)
Sept. 3 (Thurs.)\u00a0 \u00a0 @ Chadron State
Sept. 12\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Bye Week
Sept. 19\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 @ Emporia State
Sept. 26\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Washburn (1 p.m.)
Oct. 3\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Pittsburg State (2 p.m.) Homecoming
Oct. 10\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 @ Missouri Western
Oct. 17\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Missouri Southern (1 p.m.)
Oct. 24\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Northwest Missouri (1 p.m.)
Oct. 31\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 @ Central Oklahoma
Nov. 7\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Fort Hays State (1 p.m.)
Nov. 14\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 @ Central Missouri<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Nebraska Kearney football team will play six home games this fall and kickoffs 2026 with a spring…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":804953,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2026],"tags":[58886,7,58887,58888,3302,45576,88,9,28328],"class_list":["post-804952","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-central-nebraska","tag-football","tag-grand-island","tag-hastings","tag-huskers","tag-kearney","tag-news","tag-sports","tag-unk"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116206059672579283","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/804952","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=804952"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/804952\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/804953"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=804952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=804952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=804952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}