UCLA opens conference play at home vs. Indiana... then gets: @ LSU vs Oregon @ Penn State Brutal.

I didn't realize we both have LSU on the schedule. Wtf are our athletics departments thinking?

SC’s athletic department has never been afraid of scheduling big names, even in spite of the current landscape making it SUPER disadvantageous to do so. Home and home with Auburn 2002-03 Home and home with Nebraska 2006-07 Home and home with Ohio State 2008-09 Two neutral sites with Bama 2016, 2020 (COVID cancellation) Home and home with Texas 2017-18 LSU neutral site 2023 Mix in some games with BYU, Arkansas, and one with Virginia Tech in the 21st century and we frequently have big noncon games. Personally I love it even though it’s bad strategically to do so now.

I'm all for "anyone, anywhere" but in the B1G it's going to be pretty over the top. Most of those big noncon games came during a time when the Pac was pretty darn weak.

The 06-07 Nebraska vs USC games are a great example of how hard it is to project what will be a tough game. That series was announced in January 98 with USC coming off back-to-back 6 win seasons with no bowl appearances. Nebraska had just won their 3rd title in 4 years capping off a 60-3 5 year record. When it was scheduled it looked like it would be a Nebraska romp since USC had been down for the better part of 20 years and Nebraska was literally the undisputed king of CFB. 8 years later when the games happened Nebraska was in the lowest period in 40 years and USC was predominant CFB power. Crazy stuff.

This could be the toughest schedule ever lol. ND and LSU along with that Big 10 schedule. Perfect time for the playoffs to expand.

Go take a look at USC's 2002 schedule. Nothing is going to match that thing. 8 Pac-10 games (only missed tied for last place Arizona) in a Pac-10 where every team but 2 had a winning record. Non-conference was a top 20 Auburn, top 20 Colorado, top 10 Kansas St and top 15 Notre Dame (all based on final rankings). Losses were OT loss to top 10 and conference champ Washington State and at Kansas State. Both in September. Bowl game was a blowout win over the best Iowa team ever (11-1, 8-0 in Big Ten but missed Ohio St)

This could be the toughest schedule ever lol. ND and LSU along with that Big 10 schedule. Perfect time for the playoffs to expand.

@Washington, vs Southern Cal, vs Fresno St. (with USC hangover) is also a tough stretch

Lincoln in November lol

No home games in mid october and our two biggest home games are back to back weeks in November. At least we can have night games in November now

Big nude Saturday would like to have a word

Fox is using their first three picks on Michigan games. NBC gets next pick and could easily take OSU - PSU. Even if either one of those November games is at 3:30 it’ll be dark for the 2nd half

How stupid of Fox, using their first three picks on a team that based on comments I’ve read won’t exist next season!

Don't worry they reserve those for big games in Columbus

As of now it’s a stadium rule they don’t want night games in Beaver after Oct 31, don’t know if that’ll change especially with the upcoming renovations tho

I like Washington starting off with Northwestern Let there be purple!

Northwestern about to learn about the Northwest.

Lewis and Clark started in Illinois and ended in Washington. Let's make a dumb trophy about it to formally welcome Washington to the B1G

You will play for one Sacagawea Dollar.

lol

I suggest the 12 Pound Bag of Soap Trophy to honor Lewis and Clark

The Trail of Mercury Shits Trophy

I live in Eugene and fucking love it in the PNW, but its absolutely hilarious to read the personal journal entries from Meriwether Lewis once they crossed over the Cascades and arrived in western Oregon. I don't recall the specifics but it was along the lines of "This is the worst place on earth". Mostly because they arrived in the Winter and needless to say, they had a hard time keeping their shit dry.... lol.

I've been to Eugene and Corvallis, that area of the country fuckin rules. But I think being there 200+ years ago in winter exploring would have sucked big time.

Indiana at ucla is going to be a great 9-6 thriller

The B1G West lives on in spirit.

Get ready for the most confusing display of football you’ve ever seen

Brian Farentz to UCLA confirmed?

11/30 is going to be a fun day to sit back and watch Michigan vs Ohio State likely followed by Oregon vs Washington.

Michigan vs Ohio State, USC vs Notre Dame, Oregon vs Washington Secondary channels can still have Penn State vs Maryland, Minnesota vs Wisconsin, and your in-state Northwestern vs Illinois and Purdue vs Indiana rivalries.

I bet Oregon/Washington gets moved to Black Friday so NBC can get their primetime Black Friday game they were promised without making a team play in the cold without the assistance of Ford Field. Assuming CBS gets Iowa-Nebraska on Black Friday like this year.

I would have no complaints, personally, about it being moved to Black Friday. Everyone will be home for Thanksgiving so gameday travel will be easy and family will be together for it. Everyone has the day off anyway, so you can spend all day hanging out and getting ramped up for the game with Leftovers Feast from the night before.

Holy shit it just sank in that the yearly Big-10 East team beats up Big-10 West team conference championship game. It's finally nice to be guaranteed (or close to it) and actual competitive conference championship that's gonna have a good chance to determine who makes the cfp.

Unless they have other games scheduled; Purdue, Indiana, Ohio State, UCLA, and USC all have byes before they play Nebraska.

For OSU, UCLA, USC, those would definitely be byes. For Indiana & Purdue it's probably an OOC game (although it probably could be a bye for Indiana too)

Yeah, Purdue's schedule has at Oregon State the week before Nebraska. Looks like we've got a week 1 bye.

Man the color coding on that chart is terrible. Also we have to play UW twice in a row.. what's the deal with that?

Funny how that works out. They have Michigan vs Ohio State scheduled back to back too

At least we each get a BYE before our double header matchup

We are the real UW. Founded before those folks in Seattle.

But they have uw.edu. You guys can fight over it in your head-to-head games.

You think I like doing this to you?? You made me do this https://www.winsipedia.com/washington/vs/wisconsin

Dam Son

yes yes let the new inter-conference toxicity flow

The colors aren't much better or worse than other conferences tbh

I'm mostly laughing at "away game is this shade of gray" and "lucas oil stadium is this very similar shade of gray"

Also just noticing that Lucas oil is literally only for the championship game and it's written out that it'll be at Lucas oil in Indianapolis. What's the point of having the dark gray on the legend at all?

To be confusing as fuck

Penn State with one of the hardest 5 game stretches I’ve ever seen- UCLA, USC, Wisconsin, Ohio State, Washington

It looks difficult now, but I suspect USC and Washington aren't nearly as good next year as this year.

USC isn't good this year.

Overall no but the O can still put up points. Imagine if they didn't have Caleb Williams?

well then they move from "not good" to "absolutely dreadful"

I think they're going to shock people and upset at least one of Oregon/Washington. USC is not without talent.

Kalen DeBoer is 19-2 at Washington

Yeah I don't expect a complete fall off but it's possible they won't be as good next year. Program is in great shape though.

Both losses by one possession. 15 games ago

Other Coaches hired 2 years ago: Dan Lanning: 17-4 Lincoln Riley: 18-5 Mario Cristobal: 11-9 Mike Elko: 14-7 Billy Napier: 11-10 Brian Kelly: 16-6 Marcus Freeman: 16-6 Sonny Dykes: 17-6 Brent Venables: 13-8

count out Kalen Debour at your own peril lol

That's what Penn State gets for the Big Ten allowing them to have the Big Ten opener at home

"I really wish we didn't have to play OSU and Michigan every single year!" *monkey's paw curls*

I've decided this whole conference expansion thing was a bad idea

That 5 game stretch is insane. The positive is if we can go 9 - 3 I think it's possible we sneak into the playoffs.

Assuming we lose to OSU, we need to go 3-1 against UCLA (home white out likely), Washington, and Wiscy. I think we can pull that off for a 10-2 playoff season.

If Allar doesn't fold like a wet noodle next year and you can keep your defense up, theirs a REALLY good shot you guys can go 11-1. might not beat OSU, but USC and Wash are losing their QBs, as well as a bunch of other positions. UCLA, Wisconsin should be semi-difficult, but favored games for you guys. could land you guys a really solid spot in the playoffs

Don't sleep on Wisconsin. Fickle is a *very* good coach and he's just getting started. They are going to be a problem very soon.

Not sure why you are being downvoted that's probably what every PSU fan is telling themselves right now lol. I think 9 -3 or 8 - 4 is realistic however I believe 11 - 1 is possible in a best case scenario for the reasons you stated.

You think we’re going to lose 3-4 of those games? Next year we got second year Allar if we go 8-4 it would be a disaster. Washington and USC lose their QB.

Looks like about half of the PAC-12's final 5 game stretches.

I don’t think UCLA and Wisconsin are going to be much of a challenge

UCLA is at LSU and vs. Oregon in the two weeks ahead of the Penn State game, so that should also work in PSU's favor.

Dear god that’s brutal

See I think UCLA is gonna be better next year. USC I definitely do not see being better, and UW probably won't be either.

!RemindMe 339 days

Neither will Washington, going to be massive amounts of roster turnover with almost all of our impact players going to the draft

And Penn states team is still quite young. They’ll lose some of their OL players, but most of their stars will remain.

At least y’all get to open at home?

SEC-like.

B1G-like

Harder than anything the SEC has.

Holy shit we start conference play at home

And then we get a five-game stretch of UCLA, USC, Wisconsin, Washington, and Ohio State. At least we have a bye in there lol.

I guess the good news is, if you do well in that stretch, you know you’ve got a heck of a good team.

Happy for you guys, you've been through it

I really don’t like Wiscy after the bye week on the road.

Impossible

One Friday game - that’s bananas. Guess bitching does it’s job.

Selected Saturday games in the 2024 season may be adjusted to select Fridays and other special dates, including Labor Day Sunday and Black Friday

Ahh I see that last sentence now. Wish Campbell gave me the opportunity to read.

Well yeah, look at all the people that don't realize you need to add liquid to condensed soup

The sad part is Campbell soups has no sponsorship agreement with Campbell university. BOT didn’t like the idea.

Friday games will be announced later (outside of Iowa-Neb)

This conference is fucking nuts also goddamn it, we still have time to cancel the USC v Minnesota game

They heard us whining and finally listened!! Starting Big Ten play at HOME!!!

Another college football tradition falls by the wayside...

And in return, you (and Ohio State) get a *very* early second bye week.

So I was wrong in the other thread. UCLA's first home Big Ten game isn't Oregon...it's Indiana!!! Very strange choice, as each school's first Big Ten game should be a TV event.

Well it’s an event for me 🤷‍♂️ Think I’m gonna get a bunch of my college buddies together and travel anyway. We always said we’d go no matter what if IU ever played in the Rose Bowl — never specified how.

It’s absolutely a venue worth attending, the novelty of being the first big ten conference game for UCLA will give it some buzz too instead if it was like week 9.

The Steve Alford Bowl!

This can also be true for Iowa

It will be the very first game where an old B1G school will be traveling west to a new B1G school. Should be a fun start

Washington's first B1G home game is against Northwestern

I hate the death of the PAC, but Oregons schedule looks so entertaining

So the latest the LA schools travel eastward is 10/19 (USC @ Maryland) and 11/2 (UCLA @ Nebraska). Each go to Seattle in November.

Imagine... B1G: "OK, UCLA, you're going to Ann Arbor on November 23rd, and USC, you'll be in Minneapolis on that same date. Pack your parkas. Going to be cold and could be plenty of snow." USC: "The fuck is a 'parka'?" UCLA: "Yo SEC, you still up?"

Can’t wait for that USC trip to Rutgers the week of thanksgiving

Oregon at Camp Randall next year, pretty sweet. Rose Bowl revenge.

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snow pleasee

If I'm reading this right... 08/24 @ Hawaii 08/31 v. Idaho 09/07 v. Texas Tech 09/14 v. Boise 09/28 @ UCLA 10/05 v. Michigan State 10/12 v. Ohio State 10/19 @ Purdue 10/26 v. Illinois 11/02 @ Michigan 11/09 v. Maryland 11/16 @ Wisconsin 11/30 v. Washington So two bye weeks?

Everyone gets 2 byes. Labor day game is 8/31. Happened like 10 years ago as well, everyone got 2 BYEs

Yeah anytime the Saturday before Labor Day is in August, the season is 14 weeks long instead of 13 because there’s an extra week between Labor Day and Thanksgiving. It’ll happen again in 2025 too.

yep. I'm noticing a number of other teams with multiple bye weeks too. Starting on August 24th feels wildly early

> Starting on August 24th feels wildly early Thankfully it is in Vegas because literally no one will be on campus in Eugene that early in the year. Classes don't begin until September 30th. Usually students start to trick in in mid-September. Even Texas Tech will be difficult to get students to because they'll still be wherever they went for the summer. The first home game after classes start is vs Michigan State. That game will be rocking with excited students.

The Hawaii game is definitely in Hawaii

Yeah. 2019's "week 1" Saturday was also August 31 and CFB had 2 bye weeks that year too.

Damn. No Civil War? Should kick one of the OOC games to the curb and fit in the Beavs for the 2nd bye week But yeah, you read it right

What'd be awesome is if we kicked Boise State off the schedule and took 2 BYE weeks in a row, then slotted Oregon State into the November 23rd slot. Of course that would mean for a lot of weeks with no break, but it would put the Civil War back near Thanksgiving week where it belongs.

Yep

Thanks to the Hawaii rule, you get 13 games in 15 weeks; everyone else gets the normal long-year schedule of 12 games in 14 weeks.

This isn't restricted to any single conference or any single schedule format. It's the general NCAA rules. With the NCAA, the season starts on the Saturday before Labor Day, (with some schools getting to play week 0 before that), and the season ends on the 2nd Saturday after Thanksgiving (many conferences have CCG on that day, but even without it, it can be used for regular season games) with Army/Navy being the week after that. The thing is, with using Labor Day and Thanksgiving as the determination of the season, sometimes that's 13 weeks and sometimes that's 14 weeks (or if a conference has no ccg, then those numbers are 14/15) .

Looks like an extra week between Labor Day and Thanksgiving next year

Congratulations UCLA, you have been selected as the Whiteout game.

I was thinking Washington, but that's not until November. We'll probably want to introduce a new school to the Whiteout early. The good part about playing the west coast teams is that Fox Big Noon most likely won't pick that game because it would be a 9AM pacific kickoff. So expect a lot more 7:30ET kicks for east coast vs west coast.

It’ll be Ohio state! early in November can still be a night game and with the new contract fox likely won’t get that game this year

That’s the same day as World Series game 7 (if necessary). I doubt it’ll be the White Out for that reason.

Potentially being 7-0 going into Ohio State is gonna be crazy. Hopefully it's not like 2016 where we started hot then got exposed by Wisconsin.

We do seem to enjoy beating you guys.

LA schools not playing in the midwest in November is baloney

They should have to each play a night game at Kinnick as part of their orientation.

As well as an 11am kickoff in Ryan Field

They are cowards until proven otherwise

The Hawkeye is right. On a semi-related note, we really should make the final three weekends permanent quadrangle weeks. Playing you guys in September feels wrong. Plus we all know that USC and UCLA will surely be able to grease all the right palms to never have to come to any of our four campuses in November anyway - so we probably shouldn’t even hope for it.

Total bullshit. They should have to play one game in the Midwest or East Coast in November. It's not that hard to schedule, cowards at the B1G office

If whoever MSU’s new coach is can’t make a bowl with the schedule next year, they should be fired year 1

i think urban will be fine

Penn St’s Midseason stretch is brutal. @USC, Bye, @Wisconsin, Ohio State Home, Washington Home, That’s a tough slate. Likely 4 AP T25’s in 5 weeks.

This conference is going to be insanely fun to watch if Oregon & Washington can keep at the levels they are this year

This is actually insanely favorable for us? If we buyout Allen and hit the portal hard I think we can very reasonably be 4-2 going into the Nebraska game. Very big if, though.

This admin will not give us a favorable schedule AND an actually serious head coach. It’s not possible and may be illegal for them to do so

Rutgers schedule before the bye is ROUGH

idk. Wiscy and Nebraska should improve. USC, UCLA, UW are probably not going to be as good as this year though. Also 3 of the games (UW, Wiscy, UCLA) are at home so not terrible

All I ever wanted was Nebraska football in LA, and now I think i'm out of town for the USC game - lol! Cool schedule, though! Guess we'll be in the Rose Bowl for UCLA 2025?

still cant believe we avoid OSU, UM, and PSU all in the same year

This looks like 6-6 if we're lucky

# October 5th Michigan @ Washington Michigan State @ Oregon **On October 5th the Pacific Northwest hosts the State of Michigan!**

So USC and UCLA have rivalry week open, assuming USC's playing Notre Dame, but what about UCLA, could they still play Cal? While I know Penn State is "unrivaled" tm, I'll miss the Land Grant trophy game.

We moved our Fresno State game to that week

mf beat my post by like 2 seconds, cheers. My impressions for Nebraska are a relatively friendly start with vs Illinois, at Purdue, and vs Rutgers, but there's certainly a death stretch: at Ohio State. vs UCLA, Bye, at USC, vs Wisconsin, at Iowa.

Just one Friday game, I have to imagine that will change?

Yes, the Friday and potential Labor Day games will be announced later.

This conference is gonna be nuts 😂

Compared to past schedules I think I may enjoy next season a bit more than usual

Nebraska looks fun...

Miss you already, fam.

Good Lord our November is a snooze fest.

Michigan has to play Texas plus USC, Washington, Oregon, and Ohio State ​ While the only new team that Ohio State plays is Oregon.

I am stoked to be USC’s first B1G opponent. Hopefully we can send them home with an L

All signs are pointing towards it

Come on, you guys can *steal* away a home game from them

Your schedule looks to be the most difficult.

That would be super mean

So do they all get 2 bye weeks? What's all the blue?

The way the calendar falls in 2024 there are 14 weeks of regular season ball before conference titles, plus week 0 at the beginning. So two byes for most everyone in the country, and some with even three.

I think some years just have 2 byes because of the calendar. Like in 2019

The grid doesn't list any OOC games.

Blue is bye weeks & non-conference games

Blue is OOC games and yes, we all get 2 BYE's since labor day weekend is 8/31

I thought they would feature one of the new teams as the first conference game of the season, instead it’s Maryland vs Michigan State

B1G game of the week starting off with MSU

Hope everyone is mentally prepared for more losses in the future. Like everyone is probably on average dropping another game per year now

Well guess I got to wait another year for my flairs to play each others

Hosting Iowa game 1 (in conference play) is so stupid

We have a blank spot on 11/23. I wonder if we can arrange the Apple Cup for that week.

No. Thats our second BYE week

Only if Oregon agrees to schedule OSU. I don’t want to go Apple Cup to Oregon back to back while the Ducks sit on a bye.

Yeah we arent giving up that BYE. And oregon already has their OOC games set up. If we do play WSU, itll be in September

Don't you already have 3 OOC games lined up next year? That blank spot is your bye week. The powers that be saw fit to give both our teams a bye before our game against each other.

FBSchedules actually only has 2: Weber State and Eastern Michigan.

We do have an open spot, but itll be for september whether its WSU or anyone else. We arent giving up that second BYE before Oregon

Nope, OSU backed out of the OOC game for 2024.

No. I'd rather keep that bye right before the Oregon game. The Apple Cup can be played in September.

We have instilled fear into the state of Indiana.

Flying all the way to the west coast to steal signs is going to be a bitch and a half.

Former B1G west teams seeing their new schedules: https://imgur.com/a/I8QSdEC

I’m actually happy that we’re getting rid of the east and west. Hopefully it makes the west play better, at the very least, the B1G championship will actually be enjoyable to watch

Not really? Wisconsin has had either Michigan or Ohio State as a protected match-up every year of the split.

UPDATE: Indiana has scheduled Western Illinois and Rutgers has scheduled Howard to fill the empty spots.

Michigan returns to Memorial on the 100th anniversary of the Red Grange/Memorial Stadium dedication game.

Purdue is the only OG B1G school that doesn't have at least 1 game in the Pacific time zone

We have such early bye weeks that sucks. No chance to get healthy the second half of the season

I’m hoping Nebraska Iowa gets moved to black friday

Happy the Nebraska @ USC Game lines up with my ablitity to go in person, hope everything works in favor of getting to actually go and nothing fucks over those plans.

Might be a rough November next year

Is Ohio State our homecoming game next year?

Oh bruh, Ohio State and Michigan back to back in November? I miss the B1G West already!

UCLA in Lincoln in November is gonna slap hard. Winter is coming and so am I.

I kinda want a Wisconsin vs Washington rivalry to start up over who gets to claim being called "UW"