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NBC Sports
5 days ago
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- NBC Sports
Big Ten announces early 2025 football schedule, including marquee Oregon-Penn State matchup
The college football season is fast approaching and the first three weeks of the NBC Sports and Peacock schedules are set, as well as a Week 4 matchup between Purdue and Notre Dame and a marquee Week 5 game between Oregon and Penn State. Keep reading for a closer look at the opening weeks of the Big Ten college football season on NBC and Peacock. Week 1 matchups NBC and Peacock will open the 2025 Big Ten season with a Friday night matchup featuring Western Illinois and Illinois. This will mark the fourth matchup ever between the Fighting Illini and the Leathernecks. Illinois has won all three previous matchups between the two teams dating back to 2007. The Fighting Illini and Leathernecks most recently met in September 2018, when Illinois won, 34-14. Illinois finished the 2024 season with a 10-3 overall record, including a 6-3 mark in conference play. On the following day, the Big Ten Saturday Night action continues as Michigan hosts New Mexico at the Big House. This game will provide a first look at a Michigan team that disappointed last season with an 8-5 overall mark. Head coach Sherrone Moore reportedly is expected to be suspended for two games in the 2025 season as part of self-imposed sanctions by the university for the Connor Stalions advanced scouting scandal. Week 2 matchups Miami Ohio will visit Rutgers at SHI Stadium to kick off the Week 2 slate, followed by Michigan State hosting Boston College in the evening window. The Miami Ohio-Rutgers matchup will be the first-ever meeting between the two schools. Rutgers, which finished the 2024 season with a 7-6 mark, will seek its third-consecutive winning record next year. Miami Ohio posted a 9-5 record last season, including a 7-1 conference mark. At night, Michigan State will host Boston College at Spartan Stadium. Both teams last played each other during the 2024 season when the Eagles stormed back in the fourth quarter to defeat the Spartans. The schools have faced each other seven times dating back to 1935, and Boston College leads the all-time series, 5-1-1. The Eagles finished the 2024 season with a 7-5 mark, while the Spartans posted a 5-7 record. Week 3 matchups The Week 3 slate will feature Towson at Maryland in the afternoon window, followed by Ohio at defending national champion Ohio State in the evening. The Tigers delivered a strong 2024 campaign, earning their first seven-win season since 2019. The team finished with a 7-5 overall record, including a 5-3 mark in the CAA. Towson will take on Maryland for the first time since the 2023 season. Maryland is coming off of a 4-8 season last year and lost many players to the transfer portal. Coach Mike Locksley recruited well though, landing solid players in the recruiting class and transfer portal. The night matchup will feature Ohio at Ohio State at Ohio Stadium. The series history between these two teams dates back to 1999 and the Buckeyes are 3-0 in head-to-head matchups. Ohio State finished with a 14-2 overall record last season, including a 7-2 mark in conference play en route to the College Football Playoff. The Buckeyes defeated Notre Dame to win their ninth National Championship - the first championship for the program since 2014. Purdue at Notre Dame in Week 4 Notre Dame, which advanced to the College Football Playoff National Championship least season, will host instate rival Purdue in the afternoon slate of Week 4. Both teams last played each other last season when the Fighting Irish defeated the Boilermakers, 66-7. This matchup will mark the second-consecutive season in which Notre Dame has faced Purdue in Game 3 of the season to battle for the Shillelagh Trophy. The Irish and Boilermakers first played each other in 1896 and both teams have faced off 88 times over the course of their histories. Notre Dame holds a 60-26-2 overall advantage in the series. RELATED: NBC Sports' 2025 Notre Dame football schedule headlined by matchups vs. Texas A&M, Boise State Oregon vs. Penn State in Week 5 Both Oregon and Penn State enter the 2025 college football season hungry for more. Dan Lanning's Oregon team looked like one of the best in the country during the regular season. The Ducks were the only team to finish the season undefeated, posting a 12-0 mark. When Oregon defeated Penn State to win the Big Ten Championship game, the Ducks looked like they had the most momentum entering the College Football Playoff. But — after a first-round bye — the Ducks lost to Ohio State in the Rose Bowl, dashing their championship hopes. Penn State meanwhile, made a deeper postseason run in the first season with the expanded College Football Playoff. The Nittany Lions finished the 2024 season with a 13-3 record, including an 8-1 mark in conference play. After losing to Oregon in the Big Ten Championship, Penn State defeated SMU and Boise State in the College Football Playoff before falling just short to Notre Dame in the Orange Bowl. Complete first three weeks of the 2025 Big Ten schedule on NBC and Peacock: Western Illinois at Illinois (7:30p EST, Peacock) New Mexico at Michigan (7:30p EST, NBC, Peacock) Miami (OH) at Rutgers (3:30p EST, Peacock) Boston College at Michigan State (7:30p EST, NBC, Peacock) Towson at Maryland (3:30p EST, Peacock) Ohio at Ohio State (7:15p EST, Peacock) Purdue at Notre Dame (3:30p EST, NBC, Peacock) Afternoon game TBA Oregon at Penn State (7:30p EST, NBC, Peacock) Stay tuned to NBC Sports for continued updates on the 2025 Big Ten football schedule. Sign up here to watch all of Peacock's LIVE sports, sports shows, documentaries, classic matches, and more. You'll also get tons of hit movies and TV shows, Originals, news, 24/7 channels, and current NBC & Bravo hits—Peacock is here for whatever you're in the mood for. Luke Altmyer sits down with Nicole Auerbach to discuss his decision to return to Illinois, the culture that coach Bret Bielema fosters and the significance of defeating South Carolina in the Citrus Bowl. Ryan Day sits down with Nicole Auerbach to discuss the youth on this season's Ohio State team, the QB battle between Julian Sayin, Lincoln Kienholz and Tavien St. Clair and the offseason coordinator changes. RBs Kaytron Allen and Nick Singleton sit down with Mike Robinson to unpack their decision to return to Penn State, how they separate football from their friendship and what they want their legacies to be.
Yahoo
16-05-2025
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- Yahoo
Michigan football self-imposed suspension for Sherrone Moore for Connor Stalions saga
We're starting to see some resolutions coming down the pike for Michigan football as it pertains to the NCAA and the Connor Stalions saga. Last week, two former coaches in the NFL accepted show causes, which will not last beyond their tenures in the NFL. But the Wolverines are apparently self-imposing a punishment on head coach Sherrone Moore before the NCAA steps in. Advertisement According to ESPN, Michigan football is imposing a two-game suspension on Moore, who deleted text messages between him and Stalions, for two games in 2025, Weeks 3-4. Michigan football coach Sherrone Moore is expected to be suspended for two games for the upcoming 2025 season as part of self-imposed sanctions by the university for the Connor Stalions advanced scouting scandal, industry sources told ESPN. The suspensions will be for Michigan's Week 3 and Week 4 games against Central Michigan and Nebraska. Moore will also be barred from any team-related duties during those weeks, and will receive additional recruiting-related penalties. The NCAA can still punish Moore in addition to the self-imposed school penalties. A final resolution is expected before the start of the season. Michigan had self-imposed a three-game suspension for Jim Harbaugh in 2023, the first three games, but he was allowed within the facilities and could coach during the week. It's unclear who will coach the two weeks Moore will be suspended or if the NCAA will accept the punishment. This article originally appeared on Wolverines Wire: U-M suspends Sherrone Moore for two games
New York Times
08-05-2025
- Sport
- New York Times
Michigan sign-stealing scandal should leave a mark, even if college sports has bigger problems
Yes, we're all sick of hearing about the Michigan sign-stealing scandal that made a celebrity of Connor Stalions, an NFL coach again (on a show cause) of Jim Harbaugh and a successor trying to pick and choose his future suspension dates in Sherrone Moore. But see, when cheating is clear and brazen — and it's the kind that actually impacts competition, not the kind that leaves a kid with a bus ticket or too much cream cheese on his bagel — the annoyance of a drawn-out, public saga is a price worth paying. It should result in meaningful punishment, and the final word on that is due soon from the NCAA. Advertisement It should buy some level of deterrence, so we have fewer of these to endure. That's the idea, anyway. It's worth a shot, I say, and would expect all but Wolverines lovers in this instance to agree. This is not nothing, not trivial, not to be dismissed just because the NCAA has bigger issues and a regrettable enforcement history. This is worthwhile. The NCAA has struggled to enforce its rules. That's obvious. So … the NCAA should be less concerned with enforcing its rules? That's like saying the way to fix bad officiating is to get rid of officials altogether. But that's a college sports problem for another day. Whatever twists and turns lie ahead for this industry, rules and rules enforcement will matter. That's why many sports organizations were created in the first place. This case should not be confused with so many embarrassing ones in the history of the NCAA, attempting to hold schools to account on amateurism rules. Weak premises, no subpoena power, mostly unsatisfying results. And now we look back and wonder why we ever cared in the first place. But everyone still takes the Astros sign-stealing scandal seriously (other than Astros fans). Same with 'DeflateGate' (other than Patriots fans and/or Tom Brady sycophants). Rogue official Tim Donaghy rocked the NBA. Doping scandals and the Olympics go hand in hand. These things won't lose gravity over time. They're very different and vary in severity, but all directly affect competition. As did Stalions' operation, which he attempted in a Netflix documentary to minimize but ended up telling on himself in the process. Now Michigan is basically doing the same — months after a 137-page response to the notice of allegations in which the school claimed the NCAA is 'wildly overcharging' in this case, it is offering up a two-game suspension of Moore in advance of an expected summer hearing in front of the Committee on Infractions. Advertisement This is related to the NCAA accusing Moore of deleting 52 text messages he'd exchanged with Stalions in the early stages of the investigation into Michigan. He hasn't denied the allegations but has said he looks forward to the public release of the texts. Also, Michigan plans to suspend him for the third and fourth weeks of the season, games against Central Michigan and Nebraska, presumably so he can coach in the second week against his alma mater, Oklahoma. We'll see if the 'grossly overreaching' NCAA — more written words from Michigan in January — goes along with that or has more for Moore in mind. Bigger things are happening in college athletics. President Trump is forming a commission to study it, while everyone awaits U.S. District Court Judge Claudia Wilkens' final approval on a $2.8 billion lawsuit settlement that will result in schools sharing revenue directly with athletes. Revenue sharing won't slow the desperate pursuit of top talent or the market forces around that pursuit. Collective bargaining in some form seems increasingly necessary and inevitable. But people are watching this, too. And not just Michigan lovers and haters (both of whom add nothing to the conversation but excuse-making/accusatory hyperbole that would be exactly reversed if this were, say, an Ohio State scandal). 'I promise you that coaches still care about this,' a Power 4 head coach — not in the Big Ten — said this week. 'This was a major deal, and you can't minimize it. It's bad for college football. (Stealing signals) might be more common than you think, but the extremes they went to? I've never heard of anything like it, and they need to get the hammer.' Said a Group of 5 assistant coach: 'It's blatant cheating. I mean, even knowing run or pass (before a play) is a huge advantage. So you'd like to see it taken seriously.' Advertisement In the nearly two years since this broke, we've talked to a lot of coaches about this, and some have downplayed its significance. I agree with all of them who said the scandal can't erase the greatness of Harbaugh's 2023 team. All of the Wolverines' biggest wins came after the Stalions operation was outed and he was let go. Michigan was a worthy national champion. Michigan's coaches, including those who stayed after Harbaugh bolted, deserve significant punishment. Both things can be true, just like these two things: The NCAA struggles to enforce its rules, and the NCAA still should try. (Photo of Sherrone Moore: Gregory Shamus / Getty Images)
USA Today
07-05-2025
- Sport
- USA Today
Urban Meyer doesn't think that the NCAA should vacate Michigan football 2023 wins
Urban Meyer doesn't think that the NCAA should vacate Michigan football 2023 wins Michigan football has found an unlikely ally -- in some ways -- in its fight against the NCAA due to 'signgate' in none other than the most prominent former Ohio State coach. Appearing on The Triple Option Podcast, Meyer reacted to Rob Stone about the Wolverines potentially vacating wins in the aftermath of the Connor Stalions saga -- a popular solution from many in self-proclaimed 'Buckeye Nation.' 'Pump the brakes. Don't even go there,' Meyer said. 'When you start seeing about coaches that can't coach -- you went through this, and you see the word 'show-cause, show-cause,' in my understanding, means you can't coach. 'If someone wants to hire you, you're not allowed to coach. Obviously, there's some stuff there, but once again I defer until everything comes out, and I hope it does. I hope everything comes out. At some point you can move past this because this is like a black cloud that's been hanging for a while.' As Meyer notes, it's somewhat meaningless to vacate wins and teams that often have, have done so in seasons where they didn't have a lot of wins to begin with. 'Everyone starts laughing. Vacate what wins? Seven years ago, six years ago, four years ago," Meyer said. "That has no impact on -- that's the risk-reward. You can vacate all the wins you want. Now, obviously this discussion will come up. You start vacating wins from a national championship season; that's a problem. 'But I think Tennessee had some wins vacated, if I remember, right, maybe Arizona State, the teams weren't very good. So who cares? The risk-reward is in full effect there. That means there's no risk and a great reward, I guess, if you do the things they're doing. So you hear the word vacated wins, everybody rolls their eyes in college sports.' Meyer also offered a solution to the NCAA not being respected, saying that coaches who deceive the organization (caught lying or otherwise) should face a lifetime ban from college sports. It's unclear whether or not he includes Sherrone Moore's deletion of texts (which he later produced upon request) with Connor Stalions as a potential impetus for his proposed ban. It makes sense that Meyer would feel that way given that his first year at Ohio State featured 12 vacated wins in a 12-1 season in the aftermath of Jim Tressel and 'tatgate.'
Fox News
06-05-2025
- Sport
- Fox News
Michigan coach Sherrone Moore expected to be suspended amid NCAA allegations: report
The Connor Stalions sign-stealing scandal for Michigan football is expected to affect the Wolverines in 2025. Head coach Sherrone Moore is expected to be suspended two games next season as a result of allegations that he failed to cooperate in the NCAA's investigation into Michigan's sign-stealing under coach Jim Harbaugh in 2023, per The Associated Press. The suspension is reportedly expected to come across the Wolverines' third and fourth games of the season. They play at home against Central Michigan on Sept. 13, then at Nebraska one week later. CLICK HERE FOR MORE SPORTS COVERAGE ON Michigan also has a self-imposed sanction that has yet to be announced, according to the report. The Wolverines' program rocked college football that season, especially considering the team went undefeated that year. While the NCAA has no rules against stealing signs from the sidelines, they do not allow schools to send scouts to games of future opponents and use electronic devices to record other teams' signs. CONNOR STALIONS, FORMER MICHIGAN STAFFER WHO ALLEGEDLY STOLE SIGNALS, AVOIDS MEDIA AT HIGH SCHOOL COACHING JOB Big Ten school records showed that Stalions had bought tickets to games with teams that Michigan would play on their schedule and sent people to record them on the sidelines to see if he could pick up on play signals. Stalions did not participate in the governing body's investigation after resigning from his post with Michigan. Before Moore took over for Harbaugh after he jumped back into the NFL with the Los Angeles Chargers, the NCAA alleged that he violated rules as an assistant under Harbaugh. He was accused of deleting text messages with Stalions, which were eventually recovered and given to the NCAA for its investigation. Moore said he has been cooperating with the NCAA and will continue to do so. Moore went 8-5 in his first full season as Michigan's head football coach, and after a solid recruiting class this offseason, the Wolverines are expected to be heavy contenders to win the Big Ten. CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP They open their schedule against New Mexico State on August 30. Follow Fox News Digital's sports coverage on X, and subscribe to the Fox News Sports Huddle newsletter.
