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Minnesota Football: Will FCS Opponents Return to TCF Bank Stadium?

We all remember two years ago when the Big Ten decreed that the football teams in their conference needed to toughen up their schedules and stop scheduling FCS teams...right? They required that no new games against FCS opponents be scheduled, and required at least one non-conference game against a Power 5 Team (or approved substitution). Well, thanks to Big Ten Commissioner Jim Delaney’s Big Ten Media Days Press Conference, we now know that games against FCS teams are back on. In years where Big Ten teams play five conference road games, the Big Ten will allow teams to schedule a home game against an FCS opponent.