The Michigan State Spartans have added the Duquesne Dukes to their 2027 football schedule, it was announced Thursday.
Michigan State will host Duquesne at Spartans Stadium in East Lansing, Mich., on Saturday, Sept. 4, 2027. The game will mark the first-ever matchup between the two programs and Duquesne’s first game against a Big Ten opponent in the FBS-FCS era.
The addition of Duquesne completes Michigan State’s 2027 non-league slate. Following the season-opener against the Dukes, the Spartans are scheduled to host Central Michigan on Sept. 11 and Notre Dame on Sept. 18.
In Big Ten action in 2027, Michigan State is scheduled to host Indiana, Michigan, Rutgers, and Wisconsin, and will travel to face Northwestern, Ohio State, Penn State, Purdue, and Washington.
Duquesne competes in the Northeast Conference (NEC) of the FCS. Following the contest against Michigan State, the Dukes are scheduled to travel to face James Madison on Sept. 11, 2027.
In conjunction with the Duquesne game announcement, Michigan State also revealed two new home-and-home football series. The Spartans will travel to play Oklahoma State in Stillwater on Sept. 16, 2028 before hosting the Cowboys in East Lansing on Sept. 25, 2029.
Additionally, Michigan State will visit Cincinnati on Sept. 14, 2030 before welcoming the Bearcats to Spartan Stadium on Sept. 13, 2031.
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Probably a tougher opponent than half of their Big Ten slate.
Don't even try and pretend like you have any right to bag on the Big 10.
Typical SEC fan who lives in fantasyland and can't accept the fact that they're not the best anymore.
SEC! SEC! SEC! I only will give SEC souvenirs to somebody that would accept SEC nine game schedule & That would have high interest in SEC conference games like Georgia-Florida, Tennessee-Alabama & Missouri-Oklahoma.
I don't expect a BYU fan to understand anything to do with college football.
I don't expect Dan to understand anything.
SEC! SEC! SEC! Excuse me for using word fan
You need to understand that as a Big Ten fan I really enjoy watching conference games for example: Michigan-Ohio State, Michigan-Michigan-State, Illinois-Wisconsin, Northwestern-Minnesota & Washington-USC plus conference games really help me to look forward to watching them.
76% of College Football schedule are conference games.
And still, nobody cares what you think.
I am really looking forward to Georgia-Clemson to cancel their series & sorry to remind you that Notre Dame will fill Georgia void with Clemson & Clemson will fill USC void with Notre Dame.
As a Georgia Bulldogs supporter, I would want them to play two cupcake games for example South Carolina State & Texas State & then Georgia Tech.
You need to get involved with SEC conference games for example: Georgia-Florida, Tennessee-Alabama, Missouri-Oklahoma, Kentucky-South Carolina & Texas-Oklahoma (Texas State Fair). that what a true SEC fan would enjoy viewing.
Georgia-Clemson, Oklahoma State-Oklahoma & Michigan-Alabama consider that YOU jilted your own beloved SEC conference.
What I "understand" is that the Big 10 has won THREE STRAIGHT national titles while the SEC has completely failed to even MAKE THE TITLE GAME! I almost wish Georgia or Ole Miss had made the title game just to see Indiana destroy them which would certainly have happened. Or how about how every CFP win the SEC got was against another SEC team! But I also understand that the CFP is rigged to ensure that overrated SEC teams like Oklahoma and Alabama get in over more deserving teams like BYU and Notre Dame. But hey, go on ahead and keep listening to the utter nonsense that ESECPN and their cronies like Paul Finebaum and Kirk Herbstreit continuously spew out to try to keep the SEC's image afloat. Also how about how the SEC only had one more first round draft pick than the Big 12? Or even better, how the Big 12 had THREE top ten draft picks while the SEC had a meager ONE!
And the SEC has won 13 of the last 20 national titles and had more players drafted by the NFL for 20 straight years.
It's funny to see a BYU fan having to cheer on the Big Ten because their team hasn't done anything worth cheering on. But that's the life of a BU fan, I guess.
Anything that happened more than five years ago doesn't matter at all. I think its funny that you're trying to trying to throw shade at my own team's success as if we haven't finished back to back years in the top 15 with a 23-4 overall record with a CCG appearance and we are all very excited about the direction of the program and this upcoming season. But regardless, I notice that you haven't addressed or tried to fight any of the many points I've made as to why the SEC is no longer the best conference and instead are resorting to insults and irrelevant points like the aforementioned success of my own team. For your own sake, I would highly recommend that you listen to the Solid Verbal's SEC vibe check episode with Cole Cubelic. It was a great and very insightful listen.
I also don't cheer for the Big 10. I hate them in fact. I merely view them as the lesser of two evils and am calling out the BS of the SEC propaganda machine.
Anything that happened more than five years ago doesn't matter?
Now that's something I would expect a BYU fan to say!
Why are you only looking at the first round of the NFL draft? Is that as far as you can count?
The draft lasts seven rounds. And the SEC finished with 87 draft picks, more than twice the Big 12. And only one SEC school had fewer athletes drafted than BYU. So, I get it, you don't know a lot about these things. Why would you? BYU doesn't matter in the NFL draft or the NFL for that matter.
No, what happened more than five years ago doesn't matter for determining how strong teams and conferences are now and even that might be generous. You can as a fan celebrate what your team or conference achieved no matter how long ago it happened. But don't bring up championships from fifteen years ago to try and argue why they're good right now. And speaking for the NFL draft, I only care about the first round because that's who the best players are and that's what I think is important. Sorry, I'm just not that interested in who gets drafted past that because I just don't think it's that important. The two exceptions are on where BYU players go and who the Seahawks and Jagaurs draft (yes I cheer for two NFL teams). BYU is going to have a lot more players drafted in the coming years and achieving so much with very few picks is a testament to the great coaching we have. But again, are you actually going to address the points I've brought up? Or are you just going to keep insulting me and my team? If it's the latter I have no interest in continuing this conversation.
Add Hillsboro HS too, sorry ass Xichigan schools! Like the SEC and ACC non-conference schedules.