The UCF Knights have scheduled future home-and-home football series with the Pitt Panthers and Northwestern Wildcats, the school announced on Thursday.
UCF and Pitt will kickoff their home-and-home series at Acrisure Stadium in Pittsburgh, Pa., on Saturday, Sept. 12, 2026. The Panthers will return the trip to take on the Knights three seasons later at FBC Mortgage Stadium in Orlando, Fla., on Saturday, Sept. 15, 2029.
In three previous meetings, Pitt leads the series with UCF 2-1. The two schools first met in 2006 and played most recently in 2019 in Pittsburgh, where the Panthers claimed the series lead with a 35-34 victory.
UCF will travel to take on the Northwestern Wildcats at Ryan Field in Evanston, Ill., on Saturday, Sept. 9, 2028 before the series shifts to Orlando for the second and final game of the series on Saturday, Sept. 6, 2031.
UCF and Northwestern have never squared off on the gridiron.
“We look forward to welcoming visitors to Orlando from Pitt and Northwestern and the road games are fantastic cities for our fans to travel,” UCF vice president and director of athletics Terry Mohajir said. “Pennsylvania is currently ranked a top-five state UCF students come from and Chicago is home to one of our top alumni communities.
“With a nine-game Big 12 schedule, we’re very strategic in how we schedule each year. Our philosophy for non-conference has been to play a Power Four, a Group of Five team and an FCS program. As we navigate the analytics of the new College Football Playoff, we will continue to evaluate how we schedule.”
Football Schedules
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Here is My educated guesses for Time & TV for first four weeks of 2024 Big Ten Football season.
Thursday August 29th
North Carolina at Minnesota Time:8:00PM TV:FOX or FS1
Eastern Illinois at Illinois Time:7:30PM TV:BTN
Saturday August 31st
Akron at Ohio State Time:Noon TV:FOX
Miami(OH) at Northwestern Time:Noon TV:BTN
Florida Atlantic at Michigan State Time:Noon TV:BTN
Florida International at Indiana Time:Noon TV:Peacock
Fresno State at Michigan Time:3:30PM TV:CBS
Penn State at West Virginina Time:3:30PM TV:FS1
Indiana State at Purdue Time:3:30PM TV:BTN
UConn at Maryland Time :3:30PM TV:BTN
Howard at Rutgers Time 3:30PM TV:Peacock
UTEP at Nebraska Time:7:00PM TV:FS1
Illinois State at Iowa Time:7:00PM TV:BTN
UCLA at Hawaii Time:7:30PM TV:CBS
Western Michigan at Wisconsin Time:7:30PM TV:NBC
Weber State at Washington Time:10:30PM TV:BTN
Idaho at Oregon Time:11:00PM TV:Peacock
Sunday September 1st
LSU vs USC in Las Vegas Time:7:30PM TV:ABC
Friday September 6th
Michigan State at Maryland Time:8:00PM TV:FOX or BTN
Saturday September 7th
Texas at Michigan Time:Noon TV:FOX
Kansas at Illinois Time:Noon TV:Peacock
Western Illinois at Indiana Time:Noon TV:BTN
South Dakota at Wisconsin Time:Noon TV:BTN
Duke at Northwestern Time:2:00PM TV:Peacock
Colorado at Nebraska Time:3:30PM TV:CBS
Western Michigan at Ohio State Time:3:30PM TV:FS1
Akron at Rutgers Time:3:30PM TV:BTN
Rhode Island at Minnesota Time:3:30PM TV:BTN
Iowa State at Iowa Time:7:00PM TV:FS1
Bowling Green at Penn State Time:7:00PM TV:BTN
Boise State at Oregon Time:7:30PM TV:NBC
Utah State at USC Time:10:30PM TV:BTN
Eastern Michigan at Washinton Time:11:00PM TV:Peacock
Friday September 13th
Washington vs Washinton State in Seattle Time:8:00PM TV:FOX
Saturday September 14th
Alabama at Wisconsin Time:Noon TV:FOX
Northern Iowa at Nebraska Time:Noon TV:BTN
Prairie View A&M at Michigan State Time:Noon TV:Peacock
Maryland at Virginia Time 2:00PM TV:CW
Notre Dame at Purdue Time:3:30PM TV:CBS
Eastern Illinois at Northwestern Time:3:30PM TV:BTN
Troy at Iowa Time:3:30PM TV:Peacock
Arkansas State at Michigan Time:7:00PM TV:FS1
Nevada at Minnesota Time:7:00PM TV:BTN
Central Michigan at Illinois Time:7:30PM TV:NBC
Oregon at Oregon State Time:10:30PM TV:FS1
Indiana at UCLA Time:10:30PM TV:BTN
Saturday September 21st
Illinois at Nebraska Time:Noon TV:FOX or FS1
Iowa at Minnesota Time:Noon TV:FOX or FS1
Villanova at Maryland Time:Noon TV:BTN
Marshall at Ohio State Time:Noon TV:Peacock
Michigan State at Boston College Time:Noon TV:ESPNU
Northwestern at Washington Time:3:30PM TV:CBS
Kent State at Penn State Time:3:30PM TV:BTN
Rutgers at Virginia Tech Time:3:30PM TV:ACCN
Purdue at Oregon State Time:7:00PM TV:FS1
USC at Michigan Time:7:30PM TV:NBC
Charlotte at Indiana Time:7:30PM TV:BTN
UCLA at LSU Time:8:00PM TV:SECN