2026 FOOTBALL SCHEDULE

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Trevor22

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FYI - this isn't the order they will be in. This is just listed by home and away opponents.

The early season kickoff time will came out in late May. Huskers announced the 2025 schedule on Dec 11th last year with dates and order of teams.

Huskers did a furture schedule announcement in March last year as well. These were the changes to the cancelled Tennessee games which were in 2026 and 2027 where the Huskers added two more Mac team along with a few FCS teams.

Opponent H/A
Ohio University -- H (Buy)
Bowling Green --- H (Buy) (was @ Tennessee)
North Dakota --- H (FCS)
Indiana ---------- H
Maryland --------- H
Ohio State ---------- H
Washington ------ H
Illinois ---------- A
Iowa ---------- A
MSU ---------- A
Oregon --------- A
Rutgers --------- A
 
Ohio Bobcats finished tied 2nd in MAC and made another bowl game this season.
Since 2005 when Frank took over , they had 3 losing seasons, 2005, 2020 and 2021. Frank retired due to health issues in July 2021. Frank moved to Boise Idaho for his retirement but had moved back to the Lincoln area since than.

Former Husker assistant coach Tim Albin took over in 2021 and started with the program worst season since Coach Solich took over but things improved quickly with back to back 10 win seasons including the first conference championship since 1968. He created a new home field average as the bobcats have only one loss at home in 4 years and have beaten WVU and Iowa State at home. They have had near misses at Tennessee and Kentucky in recent years as well. Coach Albin would leave Ohio to take the Charlotte job the day after winning the championship game last year.

Bowling Green was the top team in the mac in the 2010’s winning multiple Mac championships game and making a new years bowl. Since than the been in the middle to bottom of the Mac. They went 3-7 overall 1-7 in mac only beating winless umass in conference.

North Dakota made the FCS Playoffs in 2025.
 
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Not that the Big Ten is a dominant world-beater this year, but short of a full conference-wide fade into Mountain West levels of relevance it's hard to imagine ever getting a friendlier schedule than what we got this year.
 
I wonder when the dates will be attached to the B1G games.

Probably for a different thread, but I feel everyone should go back to divisions. East and West. Probably good for travel too. 8 games with a crossover and make the crossover by playing in your third. Top third crosses over to top third and so on.
 
Flex Protect XVIII model, which features a combination of protected opponents and rotating opponents for universities. Each member institution will continue to play nine intraconference games per season, and teams will play every other conference opponent at least twice – once home and once away – and will play rotating opponents no more than three times in a five-year period.

Primary objectives considered included the following:
  • Balance of annual travel by distance, regions of the conference, and time zones.
  • Maintaining control and flexibility as the college football postseason format evolves, with the goal to create access for programs into an expanded College Football Playoff.
  • Balance of historic competitiveness and recent competitive trends, including home/away balance of traditionally competitive schools.
Conference schedules will include 12 protected matchups that will continue to be played annually and feature a combination of historic and geographic rivalries, as well as trophy games. These matchups were finalized in conjunction with all 18 member institutions to ensure the traditions of the Big Ten Conference remain strong as the conference evolves.

The guaranteed annual protected matchups are Illinois-Northwestern, Illinois-Purdue, Indiana-Purdue, Iowa-Minnesota, Iowa-Nebraska, Iowa-Wisconsin, Maryland-Rutgers, Michigan-Michigan State, Michigan-Ohio State, Minnesota-Wisconsin, Oregon-Washington and UCLA-USC.

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The obvious answer is we need to keep improving every year, most of the rest of the conference is. Osborne used to credit the Sooners for helping to make us so good in the 80's and 90's. We knew we had to recruit & develop players at the highest level just to keep pace with them.
 
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