But we have the benefit of being a trap game for them looking ahead to (still can’t believe I’m saying this) Indiana.
2026 schedule release?
- Thread starter Thus Spake Mainer
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First Look at Penn State's 2026 Football Schedule
The Nittany Lions appear to get a friendly schedule in Matt Campbell's first season.www.si.com
Date Opponent Location Sept. 5 MARSHALL Beaver Stadium Sept. 12 Temple Lincoln Financial Field Sept. 19 BUFFALO Beaver Stadium Sept. 26 WISCONSIN Beaver Stadium Oct. 3 at Northwestern Ryan Field Oct. 10 USC Beaver Stadium Oct. 17 at Michigan Michigan Stadium Oct. 24 BYE Oct. 31 PURDUE Beaver Stadium Nov. 7 at Washington Husky Stadium Nov. 14 MINNESOTA Beaver Stadium Nov. 21 RUTGERS Beaver Stadium Nov. 28 at Maryland SECU Stadium
Penn State will be the best team to play at The Linc in 2026.
That’s earlier than the school prefers. I feel like it is very likely to be Purdue. I know it’s Halloween which makes it less ideal because that’s a business weekend anyway but the timeframe and strength of opponent fits.
Still obsessing about your loverboy I see. You need to stop beating that dead horse.
My idea which fixes the college football schedule and the bs ooc games we (and some others) play.
1) Remove a week of the regular season and eliminate the conference championship games.
2) Set up a Big Ten vs SEC challenge week the 2nd week of the season like hoops had.
3) Add a 10th conference game beginning 3rd week of season.
4) Season starts Labor Day weekend. You can still have big intersectional games that weekend but that means the B10 and SEC will have no cupcakes on their schedule. For example LSU could still play Clemson on Labor Day weekend but then the next week gets Washington or Oregon for for example.
5) Army vs Navy first week of Dec
6) First rd playoff games are the 2nd week of Dec. 2nd round (quarters). Semis are weekend before Christmas or right after.
Championship game on News Year Day.
There may only be 6 days between semis and championship game in some years but that is doable.
When playoff expands to 24 will need to reconfigure and could play the championship game on the Fri night before the last week of the NFL regular season.
I'd like to drop the cupcakes and replace them with 1 game with each of the other P4 conferences.
Obviously, you must have missed the point that Kraft and Campbell’s first change to Franklin’s out of conference schedule was to replace an FBS opponent, Delaware, with an FCS opponent, Maine. Geez.
Not obsessing just stating facts in response to the incessant Franklin bashing by the people who truly have an obsession problem. With respect to me allegedly beating a dead horse, have you ever come up with an original thought in your miserable life? That was obviously a rhetorical question.
Yes.
But it's not like Delaware was any different from Maine, for all intents and purposes. Though it was "disconcerting", and - really hard to figure - WTF do you go through the motions to remove Delaware, just to schedule a cheaper brand of dogmeat. When you could have scheduled in a decent opponent (especially when the full schedule for 2026 is such an unprecedented stinker - and you want folks to pony up more and more and more $$$ to watch those duds)
That was a very "not good" look for PK, IMO. Just no reason for it.
Once CJF got his big contract, he also had veto power to preclude PSU from scheduling any OOC opponent with a pulse. (They had scheduled Auburn prior to that) So there was no way to get a decent OOC opponent scheduled until CJF was gone.
But now it is "on" PK. The Maine FUBAR is not a good first step, for sure.
Plus I’m sure everyone schedule was already filled. Kind of hard to find a top notch opponent that late in the game.
Actually:
Wouldn't have taken PK but two minutes to see that Notre Dame has only 10 games currently scheduled for 2027....... and an Open Date on 9/11 (the date PSU now has scheduled for Maine), and able to come to Univ Park that week and still have 7 home games (and would likely be MORE than willing to reciprocate by hosting PSU at a future date - they are having to work harder to fill their future slates due to no conference affiliation).
Obviously, you have to reach an agreement - but nearly every other program that views themselves as :legit" manages to do it.
I am sure there are plenty of others available as well - far far far more worthwhile than playing the Fighting Bears of Orono. It is actually very easy to schedule in those early weeks - because even those without a "open date" usually have some payday game that they could easily enough drop out.
Even just looking at those those still seeking a game, with 9/11 open, include a bunch of P4 programs (Just taking a quick look: Cal, TCU, Ole Miss, etc etc)
No excuses. It is what it is.
It was a scaredy-cat lowest possible trawling for a cheap win by PSU. And then hope enough folks will pay for that flotsam. It has become the PSU culture.
2) Set up a Big Ten vs SEC challenge week the 2nd week of the season like hoops had.
i LOVE this you’re too smart.
i LOVE this you’re too smart.
We should wrestle at tgars tailgate. My hope would be you overtrain and rip something, maybe a shoulder
Won't complain about any of this but why not just play 12 conference games?
Yeah, that does not bode well for weather. Definite potential for moisture.
I see a 4BR AirBnb not far away for a good price. What's your plan?
My plan is to not spend 5k in Seattle in november
We don't know the context of exactly what happened but the details around it sounded like Delaware wanted out because part of the agreement in cancelling was they were working with PSU to find a replacement (even willing to put some of the money). I think UDel was not happy with how much they were being paid by PSU so they made some swaps to get a significantly higher payout from Illinois.
Delaware, and especially their coach Ryan Carty, were a gradually impressive group this season. They also upgraded their roster via the portal.
Teams need to watch out for Temple. KC Keeler, the ex longtime coach at Delaware who went on to excel at Sam Houston, is back in Philly and building a decent team.We’re going to temple instead
Does that mean you are out?My plan is to not spend 5k in Seattle in november
Can't Moms pay? It would be like a free trip for you.My plan is to not spend 5k in Seattle in november
I already booked the guest room at fiances house. I’m going HARD in Philly
Yep. Sent text to J n 2 as soon as I found out. It’s off to temple then Eugene in 27
Moms showed zero interest in nov Seattle. Which sucks cause we would have been around 16 strong
I would be completely NOT surprised if that were a (the?) key issue.
Being, now, a D1 program, they probably (rightly) feel their value as a pay day game is higher. I expect PSU could have certainly said "OK, we will bump the pay day from $1.3 to $1.6 M" (Just made up those specific numbers, of course)
That would have been the most frictionless way to do things for all parties - so one might imagine PSU balked at upping the payout (as is their right).
The issue, I think, that might grate PSU fans (at least some of them) is that when presented with the option of upgrading (or even "equalgrading") the quality of opponent - ESPECIALLY now knowing that PSU has ANOTHER weak-as-water Big Ten schedule for 2027 (basically, this year's schedule but substituting OSU for Michigan.... another year with 2 maybe 3 quality matchups. Ugh)
Why PSU wouldn't look to add even a little bit of meat/interest to that schedule? God only knows (actually, we all know - they clearly value cheap wins over competitive competition)
Or 11 conf games and the big ten vs SEC challenge. I like going to 11 games total so the season is shorter and the national championship game can be played close to New Years Day.
Not even sure 10-2 gets us in the playoff with that schedule...and it probably shouldn't.
Then it needs expanding. Any playoff that excludes us is a farce. More teams means more quality games, more better, more of everything. Think us vs the Delaware Blue Hens type games. The money is fantastic so the product must be stellar.
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