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Bronx, N.Y. -  The Fordham University Rams open the 2021 season, Fordham's 121st varsity season, by traveling to Lincoln, Nebraska, to face the University of Nebraska Cornhuskers in a Patriot League contest at Memorial Stadium on Saturday, September 4, at 12:00 p.m. (EST).
 
The game will be broadcast live on the Big Ten Network with Mark Followill (p-b-p) and Matt Millen (color) announcing and broadcast live on WFUV (90.7 FM) and wfuvsports.org with Nick DeLuca (p-b-p), and Andrew Gullotta (color) handling the announcing chores.
 
Fordham enters the 2021 season after going 2-1 in the 2020-2021 spring season, while Nebraska is 0-1 this fall, falling at Illinois, 30-22, last Saturday.
 
This will be first meeting between Fordham and Nebraska on the gridiron. It will also be Fordham's first football game (and believed to be the first ever Fordham game in any sport) played in the Cornhusker State. The Rams have played five schools currently in the Big 10 Conference, amassing an 11-14-2 mark against those schools, but only two of those programs were in the conference at the time of the game.
 
A few notes on the game:
 
• The sold out crowd of 90,000 will be the largest to see a Fordham football game.
 
• When the Rams take on Nebraska it will be mark the eleventh time over the past eleven years that Fordham will face an NCAA FCS school (a 2020 game at Hawaii was canceled due to COVID).
 
• The Rams have won two of the games, a 30-29 win at Temple in 2013 and a 37-35 victory at Army West Point in 2015.
 
• Senior quarterback Tim DeMorat and senior linebacker Ryan Greenhagen were named Patriot League Preseason Offensive and Defensive Player of the Year, respectively.
 
• With his five passing touchdowns in the spring, Fordham senior quarterback Tim DeMorat brought his career total to 36, good for fifth on the Fordham career list.
 
• The Fordham captains for 2021 are senior defensive back Jesse Bramble, senior running back Trey Sneed, and senior offensive lineman Nick Zakelj.
  
• No New York area college football team has won more games since 2012 than Fordham, who has amassed 58 victories over that stretch. The closest collegiate competitors are Stony Brook (53), Sacred Heart (52) and Rutgers (38), while the NFL's Giants lead the NYC area professional teams with 57 wins over the past ten years and the Jets have 50.