{"id":50489,"date":"2018-07-13T03:52:16","date_gmt":"2018-07-13T07:52:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/utnews.utoledo.edu\/?p=50489"},"modified":"2018-07-12T11:55:58","modified_gmt":"2018-07-12T15:55:58","slug":"toledo-to-play-at-illinois-in-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/07_13_2018\/toledo-to-play-at-illinois-in-2023","title":{"rendered":"Toledo to play at Illinois in 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The University of Toledo football team will play Illinois in Memorial Stadium in Champaign Sept. 2, 2023.<\/p>\n<p>The contest will mark the first meeting between the two schools in football.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/?attachment_id=50490\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-50490\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Toledo-vs-Illinois-Web-01.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"540\" height=\"361\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-50490\" srcset=\"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Toledo-vs-Illinois-Web-01.jpg 540w, https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Toledo-vs-Illinois-Web-01-300x201.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/a>\u201cThe Illinois game adds another quality opponent to our future non-conference football schedule,\u201d UT Vice President and Athletic Director Mike O\u2019Brien said. \u201cOver the next few years, we will play three teams from the Big Ten [Illinois, Michigan State and Ohio State], as well as Kentucky and Notre Dame. These are exciting games for our players and are also close enough for our fans to attend in large numbers.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Toledo will open the 2018 season with three consecutive home games, beginning with the Virginia Military Institute Saturday, Sept. 1. Following a bye week, the Rockets host Miami (Fla.) Sept. 15 and Nevada Sept. 22. <\/p>\n<p>For season tickets, click <a href=\"http:\/\/utrockets.com\/sports\/2015\/3\/17\/GEN_2014010139.aspx\">here<\/a> or call 419.530.GOLD (4653). <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Rockets will play the Illini on the gridiron in Champaign in 2023.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[50,56,5,1],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50489"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50489"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50489\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50491,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50489\/revisions\/50491"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}