5 takeaways from Penn State’s 2024 Big Ten football schedule

Five main takeaways on Penn State’s new-look Big Ten 2024 schedule where three new opponents enter the fray.

The new-look Big Ten released its 2024 football schedule Thursday afternoon, and with 18 teams now in the fold, the slate of marquee matchups is even more extensive. It is never too early to look ahead to next year and which opponents are lined up to face Penn State. There is an endless amount of intrigue with the additions of four West Coast powers: UCLA, USC, Oregon, and Washington. 

Here is a look at some of our top takeaways from the 2024 schedule.

Wisconsin’s entire 2024 football schedule has been officially announced

The 2024 Wisconsin football schedule is here

The Big Ten Conference revealed the full 2024 football schedule on Thursday afternoon, as the conference welcomes USC, Oregon, UCLA, and Washington into the fold.

Wisconsin will see a pair of those new schools in 2024 as they travel to USC and host Oregon. Wisconsin will also see powerhouse Alabama at Camp Randall in their third and final non-conference game of the year.

Wisconsin will always be playing Iowa and Minnesota, even with the expanded conference structure. Rivalry games being kept was a key for conference leaders in the expansion.

The Big Ten will do away with divisions, but still have a Big Ten Championship set for December 7 at Lucas Oil Stadium.

Here is a look at Wisconsin’s complete 2024 schedule:

Oregon Ducks 2024 Big Ten schedule officially released

The official schedule and dates for the Oregon Ducks’ first year in the Big Ten has officially been announced.

We’ve know for a while what teams the Oregon Ducks were going to face in the 2024 season, their first as members of the Big Ten Conference, but now we officially know which order the games will come in as well.

On Thursday afternoon, the Big Ten officially announced their 2024 schedule for all teams in the conference. The conference released the schedule months ago, but had to rework things once it was announced that both the Oregon Ducks and Washington Huskies would be joining the conference as well.

We knew that some big games would take place for Dan Lanning and the Ducks next year, such as a home game against Ohio State, and a road game at Michigan. Now we know when those games will take place. Take a look at the full schedule below:

USC will visit Michigan in revised 2024 Big Ten football schedule

#B1G game, #B1G news: #USC will travel to Ann Arbor to play Michigan in 2024. The Trojans will visit the Big House.

USC football fans got some big news from the Big Ten on Thursday. The Big Ten Conference didn’t provide times and dates for 2024 football games, but the league did release the new sets of opponents for each Big Ten school.

USC was originally scheduled to host Michigan in 2024, before Oregon and Washington joined the Big Ten and forced a restructuring of the schedule. Now the Trojans have learned they will go to Ann Arbor and the Big House to face the Wolverines next year.

247Sports has more details:

“USC’s 2024 conference home opponents will be Nebraska, Penn State, Rutgers and Wisconsin, according to a release from USC. The Trojans’ Big Ten Conference away games will include Maryland, Michigan, Minnesota, Washington and UCLA.”

Penn State was originally a road game. Now the Trojans will face the Nittany Lions at home.

The schedules for Big Ten football — with the lists of opponents, not dates or times (those will come later) — have been set through the 2028 season. Oregon and Washington will join USC and UCLA in the Big Ten.

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Major takeaways from Oregon’s Ducks’ Big Ten schedule release for 2024 and beyond

Major takeaways from Oregon’s Ducks’ Big Ten schedule release in 2024 and beyond

Thursday morning brought massive news, and I hope you were prepared.

We finally gained a look at the schedule of opponents that each Big Ten team will face over the coming five season, starting in 2024. While we don’t know the order the games will be played in or the dates they will occur, we now know which teams the Oregon Ducks will play and whether they will be at home or on the road over the next five years.

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There is a great deal of information to parse and numerous takeaways to be had.

We broke it all down and give our biggest takeaways from the schedule release as a whole.

Social media reacts to Oregon’s Big Ten schedule release for 2024 and beyond

Social media reacts to Oregon’s Big Ten schedule release for 2024 and beyond

Thursday brought news that fans of the Oregon Ducks and every other team in the Big Ten have been waiting on for quite some time.

The Big Ten schedule of opponents for each team has been released for the next five years. While we don’t know the order or dates in which each matchup will take place, we now have an idea of which teams each school will face and where.

For the Oregon Ducks, there are some incredible matchups on the docket, including hosting Ohio State at Autzen in 2024 and traveling to Michigan and Wisconsin.

As you would expect, fans and media members had a great time on social media reacting to the schedule of opponents released on Thursday. Here are some of the top reactions:

Oregon Ducks Big Ten opponents released for 2024 season

BREAKING: Oregon Ducks Big Ten opponents released for 2024 season

Since it was announced a couple of months ago, we’ve wondered what the Oregon Ducks’ Big Ten Conference schedule was going to look like. We know the teams in the league, the traditional powers and historic rivalries. But we have been curious to see how the conference was going to schedule the first season.

The Big Ten did a good job earlier in the year of releasing its first conference schedule after the league expanded to bring in both the USC Trojans and UCLA Bruins, adopting a “flex protect plus” format that made it so some teams will have more protected games against traditional rivals than others.

Once the Oregon Ducks and Washington Huskies were added later in summer, though, that schedule went out the window. Officials spent the last couple of months trying to piece together a schedule for an 18-team conference.

Now, in early October, that list of opponents for each team was released. Here is who Dan Lanning and the Ducks will play in their first season as a member of the Big Ten Conference:

Every Big Ten game in Week 1 of the 2023 college football season

Every Big Ten game in Week 1 of the 2023 college football season

Week 1 is on the horizon, and the Big Ten is full of new faces on the sidelines and on the field as a fresh year begins.

It all begins on Thursday, August 31 with a conference matchup to kick things off.

Wisconsin begins their season at home on Saturday, September 2 when the Badgers host Buffalo at Camp Randall Stadium.

There a number of intriguing conference matchups to begin the year, with three conference games taking place in Week 1. Among the non-conference slates includes the debut of Big Ten Saturday nights on NBC with West Virginia taking on Penn State.

Here is the complete Big Ten schedule in Week 1:

Michigan regent offers great insights on NCAA failures, travel problems and more

A #Michigan regent named Jordan Acker won widespread and deserved praise for a viral thread on the broken state of college sports.

Jordan Acker is someone you very likely had never heard of before this weekend, unless you live in Ann Arbor or the state of Michigan.

Acker, a member of the University of Michigan Board of Regents, has been taking in the news along with the rest of us about the new West Coast schools joining the Big Ten Conference.

There also is speculation the Atlantic Coast Conference might invite two schools from the San Francisco Bay Area, Stanford and Cal-Berkeley. Arizona State and Arizona have just joined the Big 12 and will make road trips to Morgantown, West Virginia, and Ames, Iowa.

Travel for athletes is accepted as part of the big-money world of college sports, but whereas it’s part of the price for football and men’s basketball players, the Olympic sport athletes plainly did not sign up for professional-level travel in sports where their income-producing opportunities are limited.

Acker’s thread is timely, detailed and informative. It’s worth reading. Wolverines Wire knows this, but we’re going to make sure you get to read the full thread as well.

Here it is, in full:

There are already complications with the new-look Big Ten and travel

There are already complications with the new-look Big Ten and travel

What was the immediate question everybody asked when news of UCLA and USC joining the Big Ten broke?

How on earth is this travel going to work. For football, sure it isn’t too hard. You’re talking about one game a week where you can plan ahead and not have too many destinations on the calendar.

For other sports, however, it is going to be a complicated balancing act. The Athletic’s Nicole Auerbach recently looked at the logistical challenges facing all of the sports, not just football, with Big Ten expansion looming.

The plan involves pairing teams to charter to destinations, obviously stacking UCLA and USC as opponents for Midwest schools, and flying commercial in many instances.