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Kansas and Arizona State will meet within the first-ever FBS sport at London’s Wembley Stadium subsequent season, a number of retailers reported Thursday.
The Big 12 faculties will play on the iconic 86,000-seat venue on Sept. 19 in what initially was scheduled as a house sport for the Jayhawks. It would be the convention opener for each groups.
The solely earlier school soccer sport held in England got here on Oct. 16, 1988, when Richmond defeated Boston College 20-17 in entrance of simply 5,000 followers on the Crystal Palace National Sports Centre in south London.
It would be the second straight 12 months the Big 12 held a sport in that a part of the world. Iowa State defeated Kansas State 24-21 on Aug. 23 in Dublin, Ireland.
‘Playing in Ireland (this 12 months) is step one,’ Big 12 commissioner Brett Yormark mentioned this summer time. ‘Playing in Ireland is an impetus for future world enlargement and I’m all in on it.’
Kansas has by no means performed a sport exterior of the United States, whereas Arizona State misplaced to Houston in Tokyo in 1990.
The Jayhawks and Sun Devils met for the primary time final season, with Arizona State pulling out a 35-31 win on Oct. 5 in Tempe, Ariz.
–Field Level Media