{"id":436694,"date":"2026-01-29T10:58:30","date_gmt":"2026-01-29T10:58:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/436694\/"},"modified":"2026-01-29T10:58:30","modified_gmt":"2026-01-29T10:58:30","slug":"indiana-footballs-2026-big-ten-schedule-announced-the-daily-hoosier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/436694\/","title":{"rendered":"Indiana football\u2019s 2026 Big Ten schedule announced \u2013 The Daily Hoosier"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Big Ten announced its 2026 football schedule Tuesday evening on Big Ten Network.<\/p>\n<p>Here is Indiana\u2019s full schedule for conference play next year, as Curt Cignetti\u2019s team defends its national championship.<\/p>\n<p>Sept. 26: vs. Northwestern (home)<br \/>\nOct. 3: at Rutgers (away)<br \/>\nOct. 10: at Nebraska (away)<br \/>\nOct. 17: vs. Ohio State (home)<br \/>\nOct. 24: at Michigan (away)<br \/>\nOct. 31: vs. Minnesota (home)<br \/>\nNov. 7: BYE<br \/>\nNov. 14: vs. USC (home)<br \/>\nNov. 21: at Washington (away)<br \/>\nNov. 28: vs. Purdue (home)<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/image-1-1.jpg\" class=\"size-full wp-image-84731\" width=\"738\" height=\"923\"   data-recalc-dims=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n<p>IU\u2019s big matchup against Ohio State at Memorial Stadium was previously announced for October 17, in a Big Ten Championship Game rematch.<\/p>\n<p>Indiana\u2019s non-conference schedule was already finalized: North Texas on Sept. 5, Howard on Sept. 12, and Western Kentucky on Sept. 19. Kickoff times will not be announced until the season gets closer.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/1769684310_463_image-2.jpg\" class=\"size-full wp-image-84729\" width=\"801\" height=\"451\"   data-recalc-dims=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n<p>For complete coverage of IU football, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thedailyhoosier.com\/category\/iufb\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">GO HERE<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Daily Hoosier\u00a0\u2013\u201cWhere Indiana fans assemble when they\u2019re not at Assembly\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\n\tRelated<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Big Ten announced its 2026 football schedule Tuesday evening on Big Ten Network. Here is Indiana\u2019s full&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":436695,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[399,398,396,397,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-436694","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ncaa-football","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-ncaa","10":"tag-ncaa-football","11":"tag-ncaafootball","12":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436694","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=436694"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436694\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/436695"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=436694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=436694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=436694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}