Eight Thoughts on the 2025-26 Big Ten Schedule Release

Earlier today, the Big Ten Conference released its conference dual slate for the 2025-26 season. Because of scheduling conflicts with other sports and broadcast issues, Big Ten schools are typically the last ones to publish schedules. We’re in luck because this schedule release is about a week and a half earlier than last season’s launch (October 8th).

Just because the schedule has been released doesn’t mean we have a Big Ten Network lineup, quite yet. Looking at last year, that was released in mid-October, so we have a little bit of time before planning out our individual viewing schedules.

After pursuing each schedule and each day and week’s worth of action, we’ve highlighted eight notes about the Big Ten in 2025-26.

1. The Conference Dual Schedule Kicks off on Friday, January 9th

The first set of 2026 Big Ten duals take place on January 9th and it will start a huge weekend of action in the conference. We’ll get to the rest of the weekend later, but first, let’s focus on opening night.

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