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Big Ten Conference Announces Future Football Schedule Formats for 2024-28
Big Ten Conference Announces Future Football Schedule Formats for 2024-28
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Well we are for the first two years.hard to complain with those rivals. they could have made us play the illini-buck every year.
It's too scary to contemplate how important the 2023 season is for the long term trajectory of Illinois Football.2024 is brutal…..2025 much easier
yeah would have been nice to avoid them for the first 2 years while trying to gain momentum under BB, but at least we're not locked into them annually. hopefully our next 2 play will be Rutgers or IndianaWell we are for the first two years.
Besides our protected rivals, we see tOSU on both 24/25.
No other team doubles up besides NW/PU.
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Edit: looks like they are a “2 play” opponent.
Illinois Football 2024 & 2025 Big Ten Opponents
2024
Home: Michigan, Iowa, Purdue, Maryland
Away: Ohio State, USC, Michigan State, Northwestern, Rutgers
2025
Home: Ohio State, UCLA, Indiana, Minnesota, Northwestern
Away: Penn State, Wisconsin, Nebraska, Purdue
its a two year deal . the league wont last as is long enough to go past thatSo Iowa has 3 protected rivalries and PSU has 0? Only a career administrator could come up with that list and think it's a reasonable way to start building an equitable schedule for a league.
Also with the past few schedule shakeups, we haven't played them in what feels like foreverI think, way way way before my time (and I’m a Class of ‘82 alum), Illinois and Ohio State were big rivals in football. I’m wondering if the administrators were trying to “hearken back” to those days, when they decided to make OSU our two-play opponent?
Portal will be big. I'm not sure the younger DL will be ready for 2024/25 seasons. After "The Firm" departs - getting 1 if not 2 light-em up DL will be critical. Don't be too heartbroken if Illinois has a smaller 2024 HS class to chase a few extra portal players. Illinois should be a desirable destination.I love the way this broke for us. Playing Ohio state both years is tough, but there’s going to be tough teams on our schedule every year, that’s our new reality. We will get a break from them next time.
Purdue and Northwestern is huge for us. We can establish the upper hand in those rivalries and have it work out well for more years than not. I am thrilled on that front.
I know everyone is bemoaning the 2024 schedule. It is going to be TOUGH. But 4/5 wins max? Come on… We go bowling if we go 3-0 in non-con when that includes Kansas at home, we go 2-0 against Northwestern and Rutgers (yes, we can do that), and win one home game out of Purdue or Maryland. Altmeyer will be in his second year in the system. We can definitely pull that off, especially if we keep the momentum going with another bowl this year.
And then 2025, dream big.
Never occurred to me when the USC/UCLA incorporation was sealed, but I'll enjoy seeing the Spartans and Trojans play each other with clashing helmet logos and colors.
Yep. We lose out by not being in a winnable west division. But that was going to change expansion or not. Divisions were going by the wayside one way or the other. I do mourn the end of the Big Ten West.I may regret this feeling later but....
I LOVE this new system.
There was one point fairly recently where we had won 7 of 11 in Columbus!Also with the past few schedule shakeups, we haven't played them in what feels like forever