The Temple Owls have scheduled future home-and-home football series with the Rutgers Scarlet Knights and Delaware Blue Hens, the school announced Monday.
Temple and Rutgers will kickoff a four-game home-and-home series at Lincoln Financial Field in Philadelphia, Pa., on Saturday, Sept. 7, 2030, before shifting to SHI Stadium in Piscataway, N.J., on Saturday, Sept. 6, 2031.
The Owls will host the Scarlet Knights in Philadelphia a second time on Saturday, Sept. 11, 2032, and then the series will conclude the following season with Rutgers hosting Temple in Piscataway on Saturday, Sept. 10, 2033.
Temple and Rutgers first met on the gridiron in 1948 in Piscataway and have played a total of 39 times. The Scarlet Knights currently own a seven-game winning streak in the series, which spans from 2003 through 2023, and they also lead the overall series, 24-15.
The Temple Owls and Delaware Blue Hens will kickoff a two-game series at Delaware Stadium in Newark, Del., on Thursday, Sept. 2, 2032. The series will conclude the following season when the Owls host the Blue Hens in Philadelphia on Thursday, Sept. 1, 2033.
Temple and Delaware have met 36 times on the gridiron in a series that began in 1913 at Frazier Field in Newark. The Blue Hens won the two most recent contests in the series, 34-19 in 1984 and 17-10 in 1985, and currently lead the overall series 22-14.
“Since my arrival at Temple in December, I have said that we need to get back to recruiting within our footprint and playing non-conference games against teams in our area,” said Temple head coach K.C. Keeler. “Having schools like Rutgers and Delaware on our schedule is great for our program, our student-athletes, and our fans. It will be exciting to see people come out and pack the stadiums.”
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I am a Fan of Temple playing both Delaware & Rutgers for OOC games.
Watch this guy, KC Keeler—he wins. And, if he can ever get some PA and Philly guys to stay home, he could string together plenty of 7-5 and 8-4 seasons that should make the admins at Temple happy, as well as the fans.
Playing Delaware and Rutgers makes perfect sense—-now that Delaware is FBS
@John, as a Sam Houston alum, I am happy you feel that way about Keeler. I am happy he is gone, and yes, he won an FCS championship there and at Delaware. All of the stupid formations that seem to only be successful when a penalty nullifies everything…good luck to you and Temple, in all sincerity.
They have only played around 20 times not the number given here. 1990 was only 35 years ago
Temple and Rutgers first met on the gridiron in 1990 in Philadelphia and have played a total of 39 times.
Confused me too
per College Football Reference the series started in 1948 – Temple is 16-22 lifetime
According to Temple’s record book, they have met 39 times with Rutgers holding the advantage in the all-time series 15-24. Their first meeting took place in 1948.
Sorry, listed that backward, 24-15, but Rutgers 2024 media guide also has this for the all-time series.
Rutgers and Temple definitely played each other throughout the 80’s. It was generally the matchup that determined which team would finish last in the Lambert Trophy standings.
Be interesting to see how effective Keeler will be at the FBS level. In his coaching career from Rowan to Delaware to Sam Houston, he always thrived with transfers stepping down to his programs from the FBS. Now, he’ll be competing with everyone else utilizing the transfer portal at the FBS level.
Its always nice seeing these little regional matchups.
Fully agree with you.