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Organizers hope Northwestern-Nebraska matchup in Ireland will relaunch international play

Saturday’s Northwestern-Nebraska game in Dublin, Ireland, will be the first international college football game in five years. (Rebecca S. Gratz/AP)

College football has been around the world since Ireland first hosted a game more than 30 years ago, with locales as disparate as Tokyo and Toronto staging games.

Australians loved the touchdowns and halftime theatrics, not to mention the hot dogs and beer, the latter of which ran out during California’s 51-31 win over Hawaii in 2016. Fordham and Holy Cross have taken their rivalry abroad twice, the second time before not quite 2,500 fans in Bermuda in 1995.

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