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On the eve of the 2018 college football season, the Big Ten dropped its conference football schedules for 2022 through 2025. This means Northwestern now knows its conference matchups for the next eight seasons. With a few of NU’s non-conference opponents for 2022 to 2025 scheduled, we can fill in most of calendar for the next eight years.
Here are Northwestern’s schedules for 2022 through 2025:
2022
Sept. 3: at Indiana
Sept. 10: vs. Duke
Sept. 24: Miami (Ohio)
Oct. 1: vs. Wisconsin
Oct. 8: vs. Nebraska
Oct. 22: at Maryland
Oct. 29: at Iowa
Nov. 5: Ohio State
Nov. 12: at Minnesota
Nov. 19: at Purdue
Nov. 26: Illinois
TBA: Southern Illinois
Five road conference games. Yikes!
2023
Sept. 2: at Rutgers
Sept. 9: at Duke
Sept. 23: Penn State
Sept 30: at Nebraska
Oct. 14: Iowa
Oct. 21: Minnesota
Nov. 4: at Wisconsin
Nov. 11: Purdue
Nov. 18: Maryland
Nov. 25: at Illinois
Still waiting on two non-conference matchups in 2023. Cross-matches with Maryland and Rutgers are friendlier.
2024
Sept. 7: vs. Duke
Sept. 28: vs. Nebraska
Oct. 5: at Iowa
Oct. 12: at Michigan State
Oct. 19: vs. Michigan
Nov. 2: at Minnesota
Nov. 9: vs. Wisconsin
Nov. 16: at Purdue
Nov. 23: at Maryland
Nov. 30: Illinois
Death, taxes, and September matchups with Duke.
2025
Aug. 30: at Tulane
Sept. 6: vs. Purdue
Oct. 4: vs. Indiana
Oct. 11: at Nebraska
Oct. 18: vs. Iowa
Nov. 1: at Ohio State
Nov. 8: vs. Minnesota
Nov. 15: vs. Maryland
Nov. 22: at Wisconsin
Nov. 29: at Illinois
Northwestern will reprise its early-season matchup with Purdue in 2025. I’m sure the coaching staff is more worried about the matchup with the Boilermakers tomorrow.
Here’s the full list of conference schedules: