Notre Dame is back on the schedule and Michigan is back in Beaver Stadium in 2006, Penn State athletic officials announced Thursday.
The Nittany Lions 2006 schedule features six home games, with Akron and Louisiana Tech filling two of Penn State's nonconference spots. The third nonconference game will be at Notre Dame, where the Lions and the Fighting Irish will renew one of college football's greatest rivalries.
In Big Ten play, Penn State will have home games against Northwestern, Michigan, Illinois and Michigan State. It will be the Wolverines' first visit to Happy Valley since 2001, when Michigan beat the Lions 20-0. Penn State played at Michigan last year, and will return for a road game in 2005. The Wolverines rotate off Penn State's schedule in 2003 and 2004.
Big Ten road games include Ohio State, Minnesota, Purdue and Wisconsin.
Iowa and Indiana rotate off the schedule.
Army leaving Conference USA
Army's football team will leave Conference USA after the 2004 season to play as an independent again.
The U.S. Military Academy is making the move, in part, to have more scheduling flexibility, superintendent Lt. Gen. William Lennox Jr. said.
Army joined the conference as its sole football-only member in 1998 after having been an independent since the sport began at the academy in 1890. The departure will leave Conference USA with 10 football schools.
Army athletic director Rick Greenspan said the academy must pay a $400,000 penalty to leave the conference after two more seasons.
C-USA to enforce bylaws
Conference USA officials have voted to enforce a bylaw preventing member schools from leaving before June 30, 2005.
The move will not keep any school from leaving the conference but shows that Conference USA is prepared to fight to maintain its membership, officials said.
The Big East is reportedly considering extending an invitation to Louisville because Miami and Virginia Tech have moved to the Atlantic Coast Conference.
UConn to join Big East in '04
Connecticut will become a full-time football member of the Big East Conference next year, and the league won't add any new schools before the 2005-06 season.
With Miami and Virginia Tech off to the Atlantic Coast Conference beginning with the 2004 season, the Big East will have seven football-playing schools — one short of the required eight needed by the 2005 season to remain a I-A conference.
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The Nittany Lions 2006 schedule features six home games, with Akron and Louisiana Tech filling two of Penn State's nonconference spots. The third nonconference game will be at Notre Dame, where the Lions and the Fighting Irish will renew one of college football's greatest rivalries.
In Big Ten play, Penn State will have home games against Northwestern, Michigan, Illinois and Michigan State. It will be the Wolverines' first visit to Happy Valley since 2001, when Michigan beat the Lions 20-0. Penn State played at Michigan last year, and will return for a road game in 2005. The Wolverines rotate off Penn State's schedule in 2003 and 2004.
Big Ten road games include Ohio State, Minnesota, Purdue and Wisconsin.
Iowa and Indiana rotate off the schedule.
Army leaving Conference USA
Army's football team will leave Conference USA after the 2004 season to play as an independent again.
The U.S. Military Academy is making the move, in part, to have more scheduling flexibility, superintendent Lt. Gen. William Lennox Jr. said.
Army joined the conference as its sole football-only member in 1998 after having been an independent since the sport began at the academy in 1890. The departure will leave Conference USA with 10 football schools.
Army athletic director Rick Greenspan said the academy must pay a $400,000 penalty to leave the conference after two more seasons.
C-USA to enforce bylaws
Conference USA officials have voted to enforce a bylaw preventing member schools from leaving before June 30, 2005.
The move will not keep any school from leaving the conference but shows that Conference USA is prepared to fight to maintain its membership, officials said.
The Big East is reportedly considering extending an invitation to Louisville because Miami and Virginia Tech have moved to the Atlantic Coast Conference.
UConn to join Big East in '04
Connecticut will become a full-time football member of the Big East Conference next year, and the league won't add any new schools before the 2005-06 season.
With Miami and Virginia Tech off to the Atlantic Coast Conference beginning with the 2004 season, the Big East will have seven football-playing schools — one short of the required eight needed by the 2005 season to remain a I-A conference.
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