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Michigan State football to open Big Ten play in 2022 vs. Ohio State

Get your planners, calendars and markers ready. The Big Ten football schedules for half of the next decade are out.

And the first league game for Michigan State in the batch of games from 2022-25 that were release Wednesday is no easy feat.

The Spartans will open Big Ten play by hosting Ohio State on Sept. 2022. However, MSU does not have to open that season against a league opponent like it does against Northwestern in the 2019 and 2020 seasons.

The future MSU-Michigan games, two of which already had been released, are: Nov. 16, 2019 at Michigan; Oct.