Once again, the Rutgers football team is getting the primetime Big Ten Network treatment.

For the second straight year, Rutgers is taking its annual Scarlet-White spring game under the lights, contesting the scrimmage that concludes spring practice on Saturday, April 23, at 7 p.m.

The scrimmage at High Point Solutions Stadium will be televised live on BTN.

Admission is free as fans get to see their first glimpse of the Scarlet Knights in a game-like setting under new head coach Chris Ash.

Rutgers also announced two other key dates for the 2016 season, setting the Oct. 15 game against Big Ten West Division-foe Illinois as the annual Homecoming affair and deeming the Sept. 24 matchup against Iowa as a "Parent & Family Weekend.''

Rutgers will begin the first of 14 spring practices leading up to the Scarlet-White scrimmage at the end of March.

Last year, Rutgers moved its Scarlet-White scrimmage to a Friday night for the first time since 2003. The exhibition drew a crowd of 15,782.

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