Friday 10/9
Iowa vs
Washington
FOX or FS1? 9:00pm
Iowa leads series 4-3

Saturday 10/10
Indiana vs
Nebraska
FOX 12:00pm
IU leads series 11-9-3

Ball State vs
Northwestern
BTN 12:30pm
Northwestern leads series 1-0

UCLA vs
Oregon
CBS 3:30pm
UCLA leads series 38-35

Illinois vs
Michigan State
FS1 3:30pm
MSU leads series 26-20-2

Maryland vs
Ohio State
BTN 4:15pm
Ohio State leads series 9-0

Southern California vs
Penn State
NBC 7:30pm
USC leads series 6-5

Minnesota vs
Purdue
BTN 8:00pm
Minnesota leads series 42-35-3

Idle
Michigan, Rutgers and Wisconsin

OOC

A huge game in the SEC as Georgia heads to Tuscaloosa. Both are ranked in the top 6 and both are undefeated. Alabama leads this all-time series 45-27-4.

An interesting game out west. Boise State heads to Fresno for a late night battle between two 4-1 programs. Boise is favored on the road (-6.5).

Injury report is only updated for Friday so far. We should have the Saturday games updated today.

https://bigten.org/sports/2026/9/10/FB_A...ports.aspx

(10-07-2026 08:21 AM)cubucks Wrote:  Injury report is only updated for Friday so far. We should have the Saturday games updated today.

https://bigten.org/sports/2026/9/10/FB_A...ports.aspx

Washington is hurting for running backs.

That Iowa/Washington game on Friday night is a hard one to pick. I'm going Hawkeyes by 6 points.

Penn State White Out week!

White Out history? 11-7. Not the greatest.



Last year Oregon broke a 5 game streak dating back to 2018.

The biggest enemy of White Out? Of course the Ohio State University. 1-3 in 4 appearances between 2012 and 2018 with the one win in 2016. By contrast PSU is 4-1 vs. Michigan in 5 appearances between 2009 and 2019.

After FOX got more Big Ten rights Penn State's 2021 and 2023 home games vs. Michigan and 2022 and 2024 home games vs. Ohio State of course became ... Big Nooners! Penn State went 0-4 in these four games! Ironically Michigan-Penn State in 2021 aired on ABC at noon. Not sure what the logic was there.

(10-07-2026 06:12 PM)schmolik Wrote:  Penn State White Out week!

White Out history? 11-7. Not the greatest.



Last year Oregon broke a 5 game streak dating back to 2018.

The biggest enemy of White Out? Of course the Ohio State University. 1-3 in 4 appearances between 2012 and 2018 with the one win in 2016. By contrast PSU is 4-1 vs. Michigan in 5 appearances between 2009 and 2019.

After FOX got more Big Ten rights Penn State's 2021 and 2023 home games vs. Michigan and 2022 and 2024 home games vs. Ohio State of course became ... Big Nooners! Penn State went 0-4 in these four games! Ironically Michigan-Penn State in 2021 aired on ABC at noon. Not sure what the logic was there.

A lot of Penn State fans would likely categorize the White Outs a bit differently than that. Lol to counting Minnesota and Washington, for instance. And then there's the time when they "accidentally" printed tickets saying Rutgers was a white out and had to say it was "a printing error" after fan backlash.

Gor those curious, mandatory components are as follows:

Has to be at night.
Has to ask everyone to wear white, no stripes or "blue line".
Opponent has to be good.
Has to be at home.
Football only.

Of course the concept was so successful that fans started prioritizing white swag and now every Penn State game is a semi-white out regardless of time or opponent.

Hey maybe Penn State can win in Washington? Everyone else is!

That was a very good win for Iowa up in the PNW. Congratulations to the Hawkeyes and their fans.

Washington played a very clean game on offense. Brown stepped into the QB role for the Huskies and looked great.

Cornhuskers with a solid half. Come on boys, keep rolling!

Wow! Congratulations Hoosiers.

Congrats, Michigan, on your transitive property win over OSU.

Big Nooner or White Out? Doesn't matter anymore!

(10-11-2026 06:30 PM)schmolik Wrote:  Big Nooner or White Out? Doesn't matter anymore!

They haven't even opened up the final tier of the new concourse yet, they're gonna claim Arirang festival numbers when they do.

FWIW, for those who don't follow the ins and outs of PSU attendance I'll give you a few factoids to keep in mind. We're currently upgrading our stadium by having ripped out a huge chunk of it and replaced it with a modern three-tiered section. Given that the new section is tiered chairs it should, in theory, lead to a capacity decrease. This would have went over like a lead balloon with fans, though, so instead they went through every nook and cranny possible and added in a few new small sections of seating to make up the difference. The net result has not yet been publicly revealed but the AD has claimed that they're going to aim to actually increase capacity and possibly beat Michigan by the end of the year when all seats are online. Unofficially, this will just be a one year thing and seating will likely return to "normal" levels next year when more bleachers are ripped out and replaced with seats.

But then we're not even there yet and have already increased attendance by 3 thousand? Hahaha, no. We cheat wildly. We'll count everyone visiting the stadium (which includes loads of people like recruits, media folks, VIPs, etc. for White Outs) as well as, presumably all tickets sold rather than tickets cashed at the gate. The actual butts in seats attendance record was likely set in the mid-to-late 2000s when students were still allowed to give or sell tickets to each other day-of with no online university component. That was added, IIRC, around 2009 or so as another way for the athletic department to suck even more money out of fans but came with the important caveat that no trades could take place in the last 24 hours before gametime. AKA if you got super drunk on Friday night and couldn't attend you could no longer give your ticket away. Following that point the last two or three rows of the student section have never been entirely filled, leading to attendance never quite getting to where it had been in the past.

For now this game will stand as the most attended college football game, possibly anywhere ever, despite it being a frankly embarrassing display by us and no Atlas lifting the world by USC either. But even if they really do reduce seat count next year and remove the possibility of out-doing this performance, they'll just lie and say they did anyway. We'll be at 117, 118, 120k!!!! soon enough.

(10-11-2026 08:16 PM)The Beaver Wrote:  

(10-11-2026 06:30 PM)schmolik Wrote:  Big Nooner or White Out? Doesn't matter anymore!

They haven't even opened up the final tier of the new concourse yet, they're gonna claim Arirang festival numbers when they do.

FWIW, for those who don't follow the ins and outs of PSU attendance I'll give you a few factoids to keep in mind. We're currently upgrading our stadium by having ripped out a huge chunk of it and replaced it with a modern three-tiered section. Given that the new section is tiered chairs it should, in theory, lead to a capacity decrease. This would have went over like a lead balloon with fans, though, so instead they went through every nook and cranny possible and added in a few new small sections of seating to make up the difference. The net result has not yet been publicly revealed but the AD has claimed that they're going to aim to actually increase capacity and possibly beat Michigan by the end of the year when all seats are online. Unofficially, this will just be a one year thing and seating will likely return to "normal" levels next year when more bleachers are ripped out and replaced with seats.

But then we're not even there yet and have already increased attendance by 3 thousand? Hahaha, no. We cheat wildly. We'll count everyone visiting the stadium (which includes loads of people like recruits, media folks, VIPs, etc. for White Outs) as well as, presumably all tickets sold rather than tickets cashed at the gate. The actual butts in seats attendance record was likely set in the mid-to-late 2000s when students were still allowed to give or sell tickets to each other day-of with no online university component. That was added, IIRC, around 2009 or so as another way for the athletic department to suck even more money out of fans but came with the important caveat that no trades could take place in the last 24 hours before gametime. AKA if you got super drunk on Friday night and couldn't attend you could no longer give your ticket away. Following that point the last two or three rows of the student section have never been entirely filled, leading to attendance never quite getting to where it had been in the past.

For now this game will stand as the most attended college football game, possibly anywhere ever, despite it being a frankly embarrassing display by us and no Atlas lifting the world by USC either. But even if they really do reduce seat count next year and remove the possibility of out-doing this performance, they'll just lie and say they did anyway. We'll be at 117, 118, 120k!!!! soon enough.

I did some Googling, Tennessee and V Tech played at a racetrack once, allowing them to get an attendance of 150-something thousand. Setting aside that a bunch of those seats must have been terrible, it will take at least fifteen more years of number inflation for PSU to beat that and claim the number one spot. For now last night's attendance, much like last night's team, is only number 2.