DETROIT (Michigan News Source) – Adding USC and UCLA to the conference schedule for the 2024 season, the Big Ten has come up with a schedule for all teams. They announced their new schedule with a ‘flex protect plus’ model. The ‘flex protect plan’ will protect three annual rivalries for the school in the nine-game conference schedule. The new schedule will be on a two-year rotation.

The format will let teams play certain teams in both the 2024 and 2025 seasons (two plays) being a home-and-home series. This will change every two years with the goal that all teams will play each other twice every four years. Penn State is the only school that doesn’t have a protected rival so they have a three two-play opponents rotated into their schedule.

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There will be no divisions any more as the top two teams will play each other for the Big Ten Championship. The tiebreakers have not been announced yet.

Michigan will play Michigan State, Maryland, Minnesota, UCLA, and Wisconsin at home while going on the road to Ohio Stater, Illinois, Rutgers, and USC. Their protected rivalries will be Ohio State and Michigan State. Their two play opponent will be Maryland.

Michigan State hosts Illinois, Indiana, Ohio State, Purdue, and Rutgers in 2024 and will have to travel to Michigan, Maryland, Nebraska, and Penn State. Michigan is the only protected rivalry for the Spartans with Indiana being their two play opponent.