IOWA CITY, Iowa -- Iowa and Nebraska will meet on the Friday after Thanksgiving in each of the next two seasons.

The schools announced Monday they'd face each other in Lincoln on Nov. 25 and in Iowa City on Nov. 23, 2012.

The Cornhuskers are leaving the Big 12 for the Big Ten. They were originally set to host their new border rivals on the final Saturday of the 2011 regular season.

But Nebraska athletic director Tom Osborne says in a statement that he's pleased the Big Ten has allowed the Huskers to continue their tradition of playing the day after Thanksgiving.

Nebraska began playing Oklahoma on Thanksgiving or the next day in the 1960s.

The Huskers had played Colorado Buffaloes, set to join the Pac-12, on the Friday after Thanksgiving every year since 1996.