Big Ten football schedule grid 2026

The 2026 Big Ten season at a glance

The 2026 regular season runs from Aug 29 to Nov 28: 135 games involving the 18 Big Ten teams, 12 each. Saturday carries 115 of them; the rest are spread across the days either side, which is why the grid is built from days rather than weeks — a Thursday night game and a Saturday afternoon game are two days apart, and a week column would say only that they happened in the same week.

Because a team plays about once a week, most of this grid is white space: games fall on 27 of the season's 92 days, leaving 65 with no game at all. That is the shape of a college football season rather than a fault in it.

Opponents from outside the Big Ten

A conference is not a whole season. 54 of these 135 games are against teams from other conferences or from outside FBS altogether, and most of them fall in September before conference play begins. They are on this grid because a Big Ten team genuinely plays them — leaving those cells blank would make a row look like the team had a week off when it did not.

The cost is that such an opponent has no row of its own here, so you cannot scan down the table to find it. Those cells carry a dotted underline to say the opponent has no row in this table, as on SJSU. A team's own page shows its full season with every opponent named.

Kick-off times that are not fixed yet

71 of the 135 games on this page have a date but no confirmed kick-off time. That is not missing data: college football's kick-off times are chosen by the television networks a week or two ahead, so a game on the schedule today may end up at noon or under the lights, and occasionally moves off Saturday altogether. Those games carry a ? and no clock time. A placeholder you could not tell from a real time would be worse than none, so the page prints none.

Home, away and results

A cell names the opponent. Home and away are distinguished by colour and, because colour alone excludes colour-blind readers, by an @ before away opponents. Days a team does not play are left blank. Once a game has been played its final score replaces the matchup, which is what makes the page worth coming back to during a season. The GP column counts games in the range you are looking at.

Kick-off times outside the United States

College football is published in US Eastern time, and most other schedule sites leave you to convert it yourself. A Saturday-night game in the United States kicks off in the small hours of Sunday morning in Europe, and this page shows it in your own timezone, detected automatically and overridable in the “Times in” control. Because a grid column is the league's own calendar date, a converted time can belong to the following day where you are, and those carry a ⁺¹. 1 of this season's games are at a neutral site rather than either team's own stadium; those show no stadium clock, because a neutral venue's timezone is not the home team's. Tapping a game shows the full local date, the stadium, and the kick-off in the stadium's own clock.

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