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Yahoo
16 hours ago
- General
- Yahoo
Indiana football to play multiple Friday night games in 2025, other schedule details
BLOOMINGTON — Conferences announced kickoff times and network designations for the first three weeks of the 2025 college football season, along with a handful of other dates, on Thursday. Indiana football will open the season on Aug. 30 against Old Dominion at Memorial Stadium with an afternoon kick (2:30 p.m.) on FS1. The network will also carry the Hoosiers' Week 2 matchup against Kennesaw State on Sept. 6 at noon. Advertisement The biggest IU-related news from the scheduling reveal is that the program will play multiple Friday night games in 2025, including the 127th Old Oaken Bucket game. The Hoosiers are scheduled to play Purdue on Nov. 28 at 7:30 p.m. on NBC. It's only the second time in the history of the rivalry the teams will face off on a Friday night. Indiana lost its first-ever Friday night game to the Boilermakers, 51–14, on Friday, Nov. 24, 1995. Indiana has played a Friday night game each of the last three seasons. Last year, the Hoosiers beat Western Illinois 77-3 on a Friday night game in Week 2. They are 4-2 on Friday nights and 10-3-1 in non-Saturday games. While former IU football coach Tom Allen was a vocal opponent of Friday night games, his successor Curt Cignetti doesn't share the same concerns. Advertisement "I've played Thursday, I've played Friday, I've played Saturday," Cignettti said last season. "We just get ready to play them when we're asked to play them." More: Why Indiana football coach Curt Cignetti sees 'a lot of uncertainty' in collegiate athletics Updated details for Indiana football's 2025 schedule August 30 vs. Old Dominion: 2:30 p.m. (FS1) Sept. 6 vs. Kennesaw State: Noon (FS1) Sept. 12 vs. Indiana State: 6:30 or 7:30 p.m. (Big Ten Network)* Sept. 27 at Iowa: Noon or 3:30 or 4 p.m. (TBA) Oct. 18 vs. Michigan State: Noon or 3:30 or 4 p.m. (TBA) Nov. 1 at Maryland: TBD (TBD) Nov. 28 at Purdue: 7:30 p.m. (NBC)* *Friday night game Michael Niziolek is the Indiana beat reporter for The Bloomington Herald-Times. You can follow him on X @michaelniziolek and read all his coverage by clicking here. This article originally appeared on The Herald-Times: Indiana football: Kickoff times announced for first three weeks of 2025, Old Oaken Bucket game
Indianapolis Star
5 days ago
- Sport
- Indianapolis Star
Bucket Game on Black Friday creates doubleheader for Purdue basketball, football fans
The first Friday edition of the Old Oaken Bucket game in 30 years will create a doubleheader for Purdue sports fans. Purdue men's basketball will serve as the lead-in to the Old Oaken Bucket game on so-called Black Friday, Nov. 28. The Boilermakers have not finalized what is expected to be an early afternoon tipoff time for their nonconference game against Eastern Illinois at Mackey Arena. Purdue and IU will play for the Bucket at 7:30 p.m. at Ross-Ade Stadium. Purdue confirmed the Friday football kickoff will not necessitate moving the basketball game. The university holds Thanksgiving break from Nov. 26-29, so no classes will be in session. Per a Purdue athletics spokesperson, the Big Ten and NBC proposed moving the Bucket Game to the Friday primetime spot and away from the crowded Saturday slate of rivalry games. Athletic director Mike Bobinski presented the proposal to coach Barry Odom, who signed off. The spokesperson said scheduling of the Bucket Game will be addressed annually, as opposed to making this a permanent move. Big Ten rivals Iowa and Nebraska, for instance, always play their rivalry weekend game on Black Friday. IndyStar understands Indiana did not object to playing the Bucket Game on that Friday. This is not the first occurrence of a basketball-football doubleheader — or even the first to coincide with the Bucket Game. On Nov. 22, 2008, the Boilermakers beat Indiana 62-10 with a noon kickoff in Joe Tiller's final game. The basketball team defeated Coppin State 66-46 that night. Purdue men's basketball played a home exhibition game against Indiana State on Oct. 28, 2017. That night, the Boilermakers lost to Nebraska 25-24 with a 7:30 p.m. kickoff at Ross-Ade. IndyStar IU insider Zach Osterman contributed to this story.
Indianapolis Star
5 days ago
- Sport
- Indianapolis Star
3 night games for Purdue football schedule, including Friday rivalry: Kickoff times, TV
WEST LAFAYETTE — Purdue football's regular season will conclude under the lights on a Friday night. The Boilermakers host the Old Oaken Bucket game against rival Indiana at 7:30 p.m. Nov. 28 on NBC. The start time was one of six Purdue released on Thursday. Purdue's 3:30 p.m. kickoff at Notre Dame, also televised on NBC, for Sept. 20 was previously announced. The games on NBC account for two of the three College Football Playoff teams from last season on Purdue's upcoming schedule, including defending national champion Ohio State. After going 1-11 in 2024, leading the Boilermakers to making a coaching change, Barry Odom's tenure in West Lafayette will begin Aug. 30 when Purdue and Ball State play at noon on the Big Ten Network before a night game Sept. 6 at Ross-Ade Stadium against Southern Illinois at 7:30 p.m., also on BTN. CBS announced its 2025 broadcast schedule, which includes USC at Purdue at 3:30 p.m. Sept. 13. Purdue also announced its game at Minnesota on Oct. 1 will kick off at either 7 or 7:30 p.m. and its homecoming game against Rutgers will be noon Oct. 25. Aug. 30 − Ball State, noon (BTN) Sept. 6 − Southern Illinois, 7:30 p.m. (BTN) Sept. 13 − USC, 3:30 p.m. (CBS) Sept. 20 − at Notre Dame, 3:30 p.m. (NBC) Oct. 4 − Illinois, TBA Oct. 11 − at Minnesota, 7 or 7:30 p.m. (TBA) Oct. 18 − at Northwestern, TBA Oct. 25 − Rutgers, noon (TBA) Nov. 1 − at Michigan, TBA Nov. 8 − Ohio State, TBA Nov. 15 − at Washington, TBA
Indianapolis Star
12-05-2025
- Sport
- Indianapolis Star
Time, TV revealed for Purdue football's game at Notre Dame, a marquee test in Barry Odom's rebuild
Purdue football's trip to Notre Dame to battle for the Shillelagh Trophy received an afternoon kickoff. The Fighting Irish announced Monday the Sept. 20 game against the Boilermakers in South Bend will kick off at 3:30 p.m. NBC will broadcast the game. The longtime in-state rivals are in the third year of a series which is scheduled to continue through at least 2028. That agreement started with a game in South Bend in 2021 and resumed with last season's game at Ross-Ade Stadium. This will be only Purdue's second game at Notre Dame since 2012. The teams played annually from 1946 through 2014 before pausing the series. This will be Barry Odom's first game against Notre Dame as Purdue coach. The Fighting Irish won 66-7 in Ross-Ade last season — a historically embarrassing result which triggered the beginning of the end for former coach Ryan Walters. Notre Dame, which lost to Ohio State in last year's national championship game, has won nine straight games in the series. Purdue's last victory came in 2007. It last won in South Bend in 2004. Purdue plays nonconference games against Ball State and Southern Illinois to open the season. It plays Big Ten opponent USC at home before traveling to Notre Dame. An idle week follows that game before conference play resumes. The Boilermakers' next game is also for a traveling trophy — The Cannon against Illinois. It closes the season with the Old Oaken Bucket game against Indiana.
