Penn State Nittany Lions complete 2018 Football Schedule

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• You know, as a Penn St. fan I am very disappointed with their non-conference scheduling. It's an utter embarrassment. I'm quite certain if they ever turn their program around and have a top-rated team, they will miss the NCAA playoffs because their schedule is so weak.

  • Dave I agree wholeheartedly! I've been a PSU fan for over 30 years, and I'm getting tired of these schedules with high school teams on them. If the BIG 10 remains weak, you're right , we won't make the playoffs in the future. We need SEC, PAC 12 opponents.

  • Remember App State is the team that beat Michigan--bring your A game or App State will bring it for you. I was thinking about coming up there to see this game--would love to see a game at Penn State but these sorry comments are making me think twice.

  • Let's beat Temple this year before we worry about a weak OOC schedule

• What a Joke of a ooc Schedule every year

  • @Joe

    If you think that's a joke look at the SEC OOC

• This is the main reason our games are not sold out. We are Penn State and we should set an example for the rest of the NCAA and schedule competitive games.

  • rBad team , less tickets sold. very simple .plus the extra charge on all season ticket holders. Turned a lot of alumni off that supported the team for years , i did not t renew my tickets . I go down to games and buy tickets at the tailgates .

• In 1982 we played Nebraska, West Virginia, Alabama, Notre Dame, Pittsburgh, all ranked!!
  If you want to be number 1 schedule like you are.
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  • @Glenn, you do realize it isn't 1982 and we are part of a conference that dictates we play 9 conference games going forward? Our AD also requires 7 home games to pay for all our other sports. I'd like to see 1 premium series each year, but that's all we can do with a home and home commitment.

    That would be a nice schedule, but that's pre-B10. We cast our lot with the conference.

• I really think that regardless of contractual arrangements in place for these games that after this season's playoff there will be a lot of teams scrambling to reset their schedules. Some schools have already started doing this according to folks on the Sirius XM college football first team. A lot of callers are saying the same thing about their team's schedules. Something will give and in 2-3 years i would see Penn state starting to look like the tough nosed hard hitting team we've all grown to love! Maybe with a bit more speed in the skill positions after seeing what recruiting is shaping up to be. Maybe a tough year or two to be a fan but we should support our team through everything afterall, fans are what drives great games especially at home! Lets Go State!

• I just hope our guys can get out of Beaver Stadium without being sodomized.
  Seriously, you guys need to get a grip on how long you have sucked and how the rest of the country views Penn State and your piss poor conference.

  • Dave shut up. We lost all of our good players and still have a winning record. We not only win, but our students get good grades too. You are forgetting that we have the future #1 draft pick a QB along with the greatest coach of all time. Nobody will ever top 409 wins. We may not play the greatest teams, but we play FBS teams. Every year, each SEC team plays at least one game against a FCS school, and they supposedly are the best conference. We beat national champs Ohio State last year, although the refs took it away. Watch some of the calls. You are forgetting that they also scheduled Pitt, West Virginia and Syracuse for the next few years as well. I am so excited about this. I can't wait to get these old rivalries started again. I just hope they start scheduling BYU and Notre Dame. You are forgetting that a few years ago, we played Alabama two straight years. It does not get any better than that. For the upcoming years we scheduled LSU along West Virginia with Pitt and Syracuse, so we are playing quality teams. In addition to this, last year Temple and Buffalo were bowl eligible. Buffalo has done so many of the last few years. Meanwhile San Diego State has been to a bowl game 5 straight years. They have becoma a small school power house. Along with the big schools, not only are these good additions, but they play all three in the same year. Appalachian State was also bowl eligible last year and they will play Penn State soon. So before you say how much we stink, get your facts straight.

• I like the four year series with PITT. Maybe even make it a two year on two year off event down the road. Each kid growing up in Pennsylvania will have a few games against the rival schools. 2023 looks ideal to me with Va. Tech and WVU on the schedule. A powerhouse like PSU should always have at least two P5 teams on the OOC schedule for the benefit of the fans as well as for the CFP committee. With so many P5 schools nearby like BC, the Virginia schools, PITT, WVU, and Syracuse it seems easy enough especially with PSU's traveling fan base. Schedule something akin to the Shamrock Series Notre Dame does......

  1.) Home and Home vs. BC @ Beaver Stadium & Fenway Park
  2.) Home and Home vs. SYR @ Beaver Stadium & Yankee Stadium
  3.) Home and Home vs. Va. Tech or Neutral and Neutral @ Lincoln Financial Field and Fed Ex Field
  Even......
  4.) Home and Home with Cincinnati @ Beaver Stadium and Paul Brown Field

  I would take any two of those road or home games over Kent and Appalachian State in the same season......sorry.

  • I've been saying it for years. PSU should be playing West Virginia, BC, Syracuse, Virginia, Cincinnati, Pitt, Maryland/Rutgers (before they joined B10) NC State every year (do a rotation between them). Then schedule home and homes with Notre Dame, Alabama, Miami, Texas, USC - teams like these.

    I was a PSU season ticket holder for 20 years and finally gave them up. Their non-conference schedule is terrible, what value am I receiving for the tickets I was buying. Honestly B10 is terrible. They should leave that conference and go the Notre Dame route. join ACC in all sports but football and agree to play 5 ACC teams a year that way to get revenue from a conference plus you would sell out Beaver Stadium every game.

  • @Snayburger do the math. You said in another post that you realize they need 7 home games. They cannot play the teams every year you mention (old eastern foes) plus the big premier national opponents. The math does not work. All of those teams with the exception of Temple require a return visit. It will not work with a 9 game Big Ten schedule:

    year 1: 5 home B10 games; home BC, away Bama, 1 TBD home (7 home games)
    year 2: 4 home B10 games; away BC, home Bama, and 1 TBD home (6 home games)

    Pick the team you want, but you can't have two sets of P5 that require a home and home. You need a P5 that won't require a visit (e.g. Vanderbilt), or a non P5 (e.g. Connecticut)

    I am a current season ticket holder and I don't like the games I have to pay for, but that is the way of modern big time football and needing to pay for all the sports with football revenue. All I can say is lets enjoy our fall Saturdays and hope for W's.

• To be disgruntled about the schedule is one thing, but consider this. The vaunted SEC will not come North to play anyone. The PAC 12 will not come East and the Big 12 will only schedule the eastern teams at home. Get over it.

  • That is a crock. Washington went to Nebraska in 2011, LSU in 2012, Illinois in 2013 and plays at Rutgers in 2017 and @ Michigan in 2021. Penn State should come to Seattle in 2021-2022 when both Washington and Penn State have openings. By then, both of them might even be respectful. It is harder for Washington to get anybody to come to the Northwest.

• Do you people have any idea what you are talking about. We have played ND and Alabama and other big non con games but when your coming off sanctions this is what needs to be done for a few years to build the program. And bringing the Pitt rivalry is a good thing.

  • Pittsburgh? that is a joke. The ACC is a joke

• Penn State vs. Notre Dame please I would love to see that rivalry pick back up again. Especially Now with Franklin steering Penn State and Brian Kelly with Notre Dame. LETS GO PSU