The 2025 Big Ten football schedule has been announced. Conference play begins on Saturday, Sept. 13 with Oregon at Northwestern and USC at Purdue.
The 2025 season will be the second for the Big Ten as an 18-team conference after welcoming in new members Oregon, UCLA, USC, and Washington last year.
The Big Ten will again play a nine-game conference schedule with three non-conference contests. The league will place the top two teams in the conference standings into the annual Big Ten Championship Game.
Last year, the Big Ten announced the future opponents for each team through 2028, which includes 12 protected conference matchups that will be played on an annual basis. Those matchups include Illinois-Northwestern, Illinois-Purdue, Indiana-Purdue, Iowa-Minnesota, Iowa-Nebraska, Iowa-Wisconsin, Maryland-Rutgers, Michigan-Michigan State, Michigan-Ohio State, Minnesota-Wisconsin, Oregon-Washington, and UCLA-USC.
Top non-conference match-ups involving Big Ten teams in 2025 include Illinois at Duke, Iowa at Iowa State, Michigan at Oklahoma, Boston College at Michigan State, Minnesota at California, Nebraska vs. Cincinnati (in Indianapolis, IN), Northwestern at Tulane, Texas at Ohio State, Oklahoma State at Oregon, Purdue at Notre Dame, Utah at UCLA, USC at Notre Dame, Washington at Washington State, and Wisconsin at Alabama.
Selected Saturday games in the 2025 season may be adjusted to select Fridays and other special dates, including Labor Day Sunday and Black Friday.
The 2025 Big Ten Championship Game is scheduled for Saturday, Dec. 6 at Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis, Ind.
2025 BIG TEN FOOTBALL SCHEDULES
- 2025 Illinois Football Schedule
- 2025 Indiana Football Schedule
- 2025 Iowa Football Schedule
- 2025 Maryland Football Schedule
- 2025 Michigan Football Schedule
- 2025 Michigan State Football Schedule
- 2025 Minnesota Football Schedule
- 2025 Nebraska Football Schedule
- 2025 Northwestern Football Schedule
- 2025 Ohio State Football Schedule
- 2025 Oregon Football Schedule
- 2025 Penn State Football Schedule
- 2025 Purdue Football Schedule
- 2025 Rutgers Football Schedule
- 2025 UCLA Football Schedule
- 2025 USC Football Schedule
- 2025 Washington Football Schedule
- 2025 Wisconsin Football Schedule
2025 Big Ten Football Schedule
* Conference games only.
Saturday, Sept. 13, 2025
Oregon at Northwestern
USC at Purdue
Saturday, Sept. 20, 2025
Michigan at Nebraska
Michigan State at USC
Iowa at Rutgers
Illinois at Indiana
Maryland at Wisconsin
Saturday, Sept. 27, 2025
Oregon at Penn State
Ohio State at Washington
Indiana at Iowa
UCLA at Northwestern
USC at Illinois
Rutgers at Minnesota
Saturday, Oct. 4, 2025
Minnesota at Ohio State
Wisconsin at Michigan
Michigan State at Nebraska
Penn State at UCLA
Illinois at Purdue
Washington at Maryland
Saturday, Oct. 11, 2025
Indiana at Oregon
Ohio State at Illinois
Michigan at USC
UCLA at Michigan State
Iowa at Wisconsin
Northwestern at Penn State
Purdue at Minnesota
Indiana at Oregon
Rutgers at Washington
Nebraska at Maryland
Saturday, Oct. 18, 2025
Oregon at Rutgers
Ohio State at Wisconsin
Washington at Michigan
Michigan State at Indiana
Penn State at Iowa
Purdue at Northwestern
Maryland at UCLA
Nebraska at Minnesota
Saturday, Oct. 25, 2025
Wisconsin at Oregon
Michigan at Michigan State
Minnesota at Iowa
UCLA at Indiana
Rutgers at Purdue
Illinois at Washington
Northwestern at Nebraska
Saturday, Nov. 1, 2025
Penn State at Ohio State
Purdue at Michigan
Michigan State at Minnesota
Indiana at Maryland
NUSC at Nebraska
Rutgers at Illinois
Saturday, Nov. 8, 2025
Oregon at Iowa
Ohio State at Purdue
Indiana at Penn State
Washington at Wisconsin
Maryland at Rutgers
Northwestern at USC
Nebraska at UCLA
Saturday, Nov. 15, 2025
Minnesota at Oregon
UCLA at Ohio State
Penn State at Michigan State
Iowa at USC
Wisconsin at Indiana
Purdue at Washington
Maryland at Illinois
Michigan at Northwestern
Saturday, Nov. 22, 2025
USC at Oregon
Rutgers at Ohio State
Michigan at Maryland
Michigan State at Iowa
Nebraska at Penn State
Illinois at Wisconsin
Washington at UCLA
Minnesota at Northwestern
Saturday, Nov. 29, 2025
Oregon at Washington
Ohio State at Michigan
Maryland at Michigan State
Iowa at Nebraska
Penn State at Rutgers
Indiana at Purdue
Wisconsin at Minnesota
Northwestern at Illinois
UCLA at USC
2025 Big Ten Football Schedule Grid pic.twitter.com/SfmtXMXKzN
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As a Michigan Wolverines Fan I would like CBS to reserve Week 6 vs Wisconsin at Big House(Michigan Stadium) with 3:30PM kickoff.
NU & USC merging to play at Nebraska. That’s probably a good idea.
Five teams (Indiana, Maryland, Rutgers, Northwestern, Penn State) without a single P4 OOC opponent. Absolute joke.
The entire Big ten non conference schedule is really disappointing. Gonna be some rough games on the big networks the first 3 weeks
I share your frustration, Gerry, but do regard Northwestern’s game at Tulane as P4-equivalent in quality and standing out among the 15 non-conference opponents on those five schedules.
Unfortunately, I feel the PhysEd majors on the CFP committee unduly emphasized number of losses in selecting the playoff field. All these newly-announced games were obviously already scheduled, but that’s also going to have a deleterious impact on future scheduling, particularly if number of losses continues to be emphasized in the next couple of seasons’ playoff selections. Very disappointing!
I would not mind CBS for first three weeks of 2025 to televise
Week 1 Montana State at Oregon
Week 2 Florida International at Penn State
Week 3 Central Michigan at Michigan
I have an idea for a compromise.
Starting next year, CBS, Fox and NBC rotate having first Big Ten pick all season long rather than on a week-by-week basis.
This means UM-OSU would alternate between the networks and time slots every year.
As a Fan of Big Ten on CBS I am happy with game that they show & I do not care what level of popularity as long as I enjoy it.