On Thursday afternoon, the Big Ten Conference announced its future scheduling format, with each program in the B1G learning who they will see in-conference both home and away through the 2028 season. The Big Ten described it’s new scheduling model as the following:
“The 2024 Big Ten football season will debut the Flex Protect XVIII model, which features a combination of protected opponents and rotating opponents for universities. Each member institution will continue to play nine intraconference games per season, and teams will play every other conference opponent at least twice – once home and once away – and will play rotating opponents no more than three times in a five-year period.