Big Ten Announces Future Conference Football Match-Ups (Again)
Expansion caused the Big Ten to almost completely re-write the conference football schedules.
Back in June, the Big Ten announced the 2024 & 2025 conference football opponents. So, naturally, you knew that when realignment picked up again that the Big Ten would expand again in order to force the schedule makers back to the drawing board.
Yesterday, almost four months after they originally announced the five seasons’ worth of conference football opponents. It’s enough to almost make you think that they had 2026, 2027, and 2028 drawn up back in June, but they just hadn’t announced those matchups yet.
Regardless, take whatever you thought you knew and toss it out the window, and if you bookmarked hotels in Bloomington, Indiana; Ann Arbor, Michigan; or Iowa City, Iowa, you may want to forget about those possible road trips for the time being.
That said, keep your Piscataway, New Jersey hotels bookmarked because Rutgers is the only road game still on the conference slate for next season.
You’ll now want to set some bookmarks for State College, Pennsylvania; Lincoln, Nebraska; and…yeah, well, that’s it because the Bruins will now be visiting Penn State, Nebraska and current Pac-12 member Washington along with Rutgers in UCLA’s first year in the superconference.
Minnesota and Southern Cal will still be visiting the Rose Bowl next season. Additionally, the Bruins will host Iowa, Indiana and Oregon next year.
Rather than sit here and try to make rhyme or reason from four more years of conference opponents, I’m just going to share the images published by the Big Ten.
For those of you who only care about who UCLA will play and don’t care about the rest of the new conference schedules, here are UCLA’s Big Ten opponents from 2024 to 2028.
2024 UCLA FOOTBALL OPPONENTS
at Nebraska
at Penn State
at Rutgers
at Washington
Indiana
Iowa
Minnesota
Oregon
USC
2025 UCLA FOOTBALL OPPONENTS
at Indiana
at Michigan State
at Northwestern
at Ohio State
at USC
Maryland
Nebraska
Penn State
Washington
2026 UCLA FOOTBALL OPPONENTS
at Maryland
at Michigan
at Minnesota
at Oregon
Illinois
Michigan State
Purdue
USC
Wisconsin
2027 UCLA FOOTBALL OPPONENTS
at Illinois
at Iowa
at Purdue
at USC
at Wisconsin
Michigan
Northwestern
Oregon
Rutgers
2028 UCLA FOOTBALL OPPONENTS
at Nebraska
at Penn State
at Rutgers
at Washington
Indiana
Maryland
Minnesota
Ohio State
USC
Now, there’s still one curious note. The list of future football schedules on the official website still lists a home-and-home series in 2029 and 2030 between the Bruins and the Wisconsin Badgers.
And there you have it.
You are now ready for tomorrow morning’s hot tailgate conversation.
Go Bruins!!!
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UCLA will not play against my other alma mater Wisconsin until 2026. Time flies I know bot I cannot wait.
It’s wild that amidst all the concerns about too much traveling for athletes, the b10 isn’t having the original p12 teams play every season. At least they’ve kept the ucla/usc game