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per ESPN:
One quirk of the recent Big Ten expansion is that Penn State and Rutgers already had scheduled a pair of September nonconference games. Thus, their meeting in Week 3 this season functions as a league contest.
Outside of that exception, however, the Big Ten schedule is following a well-worn path: Teams take on out-of-league competition throughout September, and then conference action begins in October.
That will soon change. Thanks to both the arrival of the nine-game conference schedule in 2016 and a desire by the league to get its most-desired games front and center, the Big Ten is planning to stage more conference games early in the season, including opening week.
http://espn.go.com/blog/bigten/post...ing-more-early-season-and-week-1-league-games
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One quirk of the recent Big Ten expansion is that Penn State and Rutgers already had scheduled a pair of September nonconference games. Thus, their meeting in Week 3 this season functions as a league contest.
Outside of that exception, however, the Big Ten schedule is following a well-worn path: Teams take on out-of-league competition throughout September, and then conference action begins in October.
That will soon change. Thanks to both the arrival of the nine-game conference schedule in 2016 and a desire by the league to get its most-desired games front and center, the Big Ten is planning to stage more conference games early in the season, including opening week.
http://espn.go.com/blog/bigten/post...ing-more-early-season-and-week-1-league-games
Go Gophers!1