Future Football Schedules

[ST_Lawson]

To make things easier for people, I think it'd be good to go ahead and have future football schedules posted, as far as we know this at this point. I'll sticky this too, so it's easier to find and reference when necessary.

2023 - Schedule has been released
9/2 - at New Mexico State (FBS, CUSA), $360k guarantee
9/9 - vs Illinois State (previously @ Southern Utah)
9/16 - vs Lindenwood (OVC)
9/23 - at Southern Utah
9/30 - BYE WEEK
10/7 - at North Dakota
10/14 - vs Missouri State (Homecoming)
10/21 - at North Dakota State
10/28 - vs Southern Illinois
11/4 - at Northern Iowa
11/11 - at Indiana State
11/18 - vs South Dakota

Do not play: Murray State, South Dakota State, Youngstown State

2024 (12-game season)
8/31 - at Northern Illinois (FBS, MAC), $350k guarantee
9/7 - vs UT-Martin
9/14 - at Eastern Kentucky
9/21 -
9/28 -
10/5 -
10/12 -
10/19 -
10/26 -
11/2 -
11/9 -
11/16 -
11/23 -

2025
9/6 -
9/13 - vs Eastern Kentucky
9/20 - at Eastern Washington (Big Sky)

2026
9/12 - at Wisconsin (FBS, Big Ten), $575k guarantee
9/19 - at Lindenwood (OVC)

2027
9/4 - at Oklahoma State (FBS, Big 12), $425k guarantee

2028
9/2 - at Purdue (FBS, Big Ten), $450k guarantee

For those unfamiliar with MVFC scheduling, for a while each pair of two years there was one set of teams that didn't play each other.
We didn't play...
'12/'13 - North Dakota State
'14/'15 - Missouri State
'16/'17 - Youngstown State
'18/'19 - South Dakota State

As of 2020, North Dakota joined the conference and each team in the MVFC skipped playing two teams each year.
'20 - Originally scheduled to not play North Dakota State or Missouri State in 2020 or 2021, but changed due to COVID. No fall 2020 season, weird spring 2021 season.
'21 - NDSU and MSU
'22/'23 - UND and USD

In 2023, Murray State joined the conference and we went to not playing 3 teams for a pair of years.
'22/'24 - Murray State, South Dakota State, and Youngstown State
 
And for reference, here's previous FBS guarantees that we've received:
2017 - at Coastal Carolina, $300k, won 52-10
2021 - at Ball State, $350k, lost 31-21
2022 - at Minnesota, $450k, lost 62-10
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

[Western_101]

Need to get Drake on the Sched.


also plus they are a MVC school.

[yokedneck]

Can we get USD on the schedule twice next year?


Tom

[BobLovely]

Can we get USD on the schedule twice next year?


Tom

Excellent idea Tom!

Bob

[ST_Lawson]

We do have an open date...let's play them here.

[wiu712]

Need to get Drake on the Sched.

We did play Drake last year (Sept 13, 2014) in Macomb.

Western won 38-13.

[ST_Lawson]

Any pioneer league would be good...we've played Valparaiso, Drake, Butler, Jacksonville in recent years...hey maybe Dayton wants a rematch?

[LWE2012]

Do anyone know if the 2 open 2016 dates have been filled yet? And if so who?

[huskie]

Do anyone know if the 2 open 2016 dates have been filled yet? And if so who?

We are playing Northern Arizona at home on one of those dates.

[LWE2012]

Oh ok that's a different look, lil west coast action good deal.