For their 2022 B1G East opponents Northwestern has: Indiana, Maryland and tOSU.
A swap to Indiana or Maryland from Penn State would be ideal for bowling purposes.
Digging deeper into the schedules:
Indiana has their scheduled bye on Oct. 15th, which is when Illinois is scheduled to play Penn State. The problem with moving Northwestern is that Indiana opens their season with Northwestern. The path to moving this game seems much more difficult.
Maryland's scheduled bye is 11/05 and they are scheduled to play NU on 10/22. This could then leave the Penn State void on 10/15 as a bye for Illinois and fill 10/22 with Maryland.
Ohio State's scheduled bye is 10/22 which is also Illinois's scheduled bye week. This would then bump up Illinois's schedule bye up to10/15 (original PSU game) and Ohio State's bye would move back to November 5th where the Northwestern game was scheduled.
So Ohio State it shall be because the B1G won't give us a revenge game against Maryland (more importantly for B1G purposes, it gives tOSU a bye closer to the Championship game and Playoffs).
Time to bring Illibuck back to Chambana.