Wisconsin Football: Badgers move up to No. 7 in College Football Playoff rankings by Trevor Jossart

Less than a week after proposing the idea of Big Ten football games being played on Friday nights, the conference released its six-game schedule for 2017. The following will be televised on either FOX or ESPN.

2017 Big Ten Friday night games:

Fri., Sept. 1 Washington at Rutgers

Fri., Sept. 1 Utah State at Wisconsin

Fri., Sept. 8 Ohio at Purdue

Fri., Sept. 29 Nebraska at Illinois

Fri., Oct. 13 Northwestern at Maryland

Fri., Oct. 27 Michigan State at Northwestern

Wisconsin will open its 2017 season at home against the Utah State Aggies. The Badgers and Aggies last played in 2012 in Madison, when Gary Andersen was still the head coach at Utah State. Andersen left after the 2012 season to take over at Wisconsin.

JUST ANNOUNCED: #Badgers will open 2017 against Utah State at Camp Randall Stadium in prime time on Friday, Sept. 1. — Wisconsin Football (@BadgerFootball) November 8, 2016

The Aggies gave the Badgers a scare in their previous meeting, narrowly beating the Badgers and a missed field goal away with seconds remaining from winning. Wisconsin took the game by a score of 16-14.

The idea to move games to Friday nights is in hopes of more national and television exposure. Thanks to new broadcast agreements, all 14 teams and every conference game will be televised on ABC/ESPN, FOX or Big Ten Network for the next six years. Not every Big Ten team will be competing on Friday nights during that span.

All Friday night games will be announced at least 10 months in advance.