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NEWS: Big Ten releases new football schedule; Northwestern opens 9/5 at Penn State, adds Michigan to slate

All eyes on Happy Valley. In exactly one month.

Nearly a month after the conference announced it was restricting fall sports to a conference-only schedule, it released its new football schedule Wednesday morning. We’ll see how long it holds up. The season is slated to begin on its original weekend of September 5, but the mantra of “Jenga 41,” the name the league gave to this scheduling model, is flexibility.

Illinois and Ohio State will kick things off Thursday, September 3, with Wisconsin hosting Indiana the following day.