The Indiana Hoosiers have been busy adjusting their future football schedules lately, adding games against the Kennesaw State Owls in 2027 and the Eastern Illinois Panthers in 2029, which was previously reported.
The Kennesaw State contest that was added for the 2027 season was set for Sept. 4, which was the same date that Indiana was scheduled to visit the Virginia Cavaliers in the first game of a home-and-home series. The Hoosiers and Cavaliers were slated to complete their two-game series on Sept. 16, 2028 at Memorial Stadium in Bloomington, Ind.
Per a report from The Herald-Times, Indiana has canceled the series with Virginia and will pay the Cavaliers a $500,000 cancellation fee, per the terms of the original contract. The two-game series has also been removed from the official website of Virginia athletics.
According to a copy of a contract obtained by FBSchedules.com, Indiana has scheduled a Football Championship Subdivision (FCS) opponent for the 2028 season. Indiana will host the Austin Peay Governors at Memorial Stadium in Bloomington on Saturday, Sept. 2, 2028. The Hoosiers will pay the Governors a $400,000 guarantee for playing the game, per the copy of the contract.
The Indiana-Austin Peay game in 2028 will mark the first-ever gridiron meeting between the two schools.
Austin Peay is a member of the United Athletic Conference (UAC) in the Football Championship Subdivision (FCS). The Governors last won a conference championship in 2023 and appeared in the FCS Playoffs the same season.
With Austin Peay joining the 2028 slate, Indiana now has two scheduled non-conference opponents for that season. Following the opener against Austin Peay, the Hoosiers are scheduled to host the Eastern Michigan Eagles on Sept. 9.
In Big Ten action in 2028, Indiana will host Illinois, Maryland, Oregon, Purdue, and Washington and travel to Northwestern, Penn State, UCLA, and Wisconsin.
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Indiana gonna Indiana
Here My three Big Ten P4 OOC match ups not involving SEC I would be interested in continuing to play.
1. USC-Notre Dame (Play third Saturday in October every year including even numbered years)
2. Iowa-Iowa State
3. UCLA-California
If I was a season ticket holder I’d be pissed.
Why would they cancel?
I want to see Kentucky surrender South Alabama in 2026 & Ball State & Toledo both in 2027 & have Indiana at Lexington in 2026 & same opponent at Bloomington in 2027.
Opponent Indiana should surrender in 2027 is UMass in order to have Kentucky.
I completely agree with you……..these OOC schedules are getting SEC level bad.
Indiana is canceling these games as they want to game the playoff system. Lets face it this last season was fluke unless they can do it 2 out of the next 4 years. Ind and their coach are banking on that if they only lose one or two close games in the big ten they will get consideration for a spot. As a big ten alum if they lose one game in conference with these terrible non con schedules they should be left out to send a message.
In the words of a disgraced wrestling owner:
“That’s pathetic!”
It’s really stupid what Indiana did canceling the series with Virginia.
Well well well, I made a comment 3 months ago prediciting this would happen, and look what did happen.
If you’re referring to this comment:
Joseph
June 14, 2025 at 7:58 am
Virginia’s going to be complaining in a few months on why they cancelled the Indiana game.
from the story that came out the same day (not three months ago) announcing the Kennesaw State game being set up, I wouldn’t exactly start setting up the 1-800 psychic line. Once they agreed to play this game, they obviously had to back out of playing Virginia because this isn’t an MLB spring training schedule where you can play split squad.
Playing Kennesaw State is like scheduling another FCS team but you get credit for the FBS opponent. There are SEC teams out there pissed because they didn’t think about it before it was too late.
this is gonna be the norm, every team trying to protect their “playoff resume”. they actually think making this garbage playoff matters. howd it go against ND last year in the playoffs? #sad #stankey
Indiana does not play a P4 OOC game until 2030. That is beyond a joke.
I am pulling for one Big Ten-SEC match up like Michigan-Alabama, Georgia-Ohio State & Indiana-Kentucky.
OOC games are subject to change hang in there Gerry.
No joke! If I’m going to cheer for a midwest team it’s going to be Notre Dame! And I hate the Irish!
No joke Gerry! Folks in Indiana are just going to have to latch on the Notre Dame to watch some real football!
Looks like Klutchpike will have a love/hate relationship with Notre Dame.
Good luck buddy!
Georgia Ohio St have been scheduled to play for a few years now so relax
Good news Illininoles97 I am not taking Georgia-Ohio State seriously however I am being creative & having fun with it.
Even ACC cupcakes are too onerous for Indiana’s non conference schedule.
Virginia should play Liberty University .
Agreeable Frank Rojas.