2023 Football Schedule

[BCPanther]

Sep 2 @ Iowa State 1:00 PM ESPN+

Sep 9 Weber State 4:00 PM PSN/ESPN+

Sep 16 @ Idaho State

Sep 23 Open

Sep 30 Youngstown State 1:00 PM PSN/ESPN+

Oct 7 @ Indiana State Noon

Oct 14 @ South Dakota State 2:00 PM

Oct 21 North Dakota (Homecoming) 4:00 PM The Valley on ESPN

Oct 28 @ Illinois State

Nov 4 Western Illinois 1:00 PM PSN/ESPN+

Nov 11 @ Missouri State 2:00 PM

Nov 18 North Dakota State 4:00 PM PSN/ESPN+

Do Not Play--Southern Illinois, South Dakota, Murray State

[BCPanther]

League has released schedule for 2023.

[Khan4Cats]

ISU road year x4

[pnthr53]

Looks like crap home schedule. No back to back home games? Sure hope day and reeder stay and get an improved defense. I hate wishing time away but I do wish it was sept 2 of 2023. Like to see what things will look like if we don’t have an unusual off-season.

[BCPanther]

For fun, here's everybody else's non-conference schedules next year--

SDSU--
Montana State
Drake
1 TBD (will not be FBS)

NDSU--
Eastern Washington
Maine
Central Arkansas

Missouri State--
at Kansas
at UT Martin
Utah Tech

North Dakota--
Drake
Northern Arizona
at Boise State

South Dakota--
at Missouri
St Thomas
Lamar

Illinois State--
Dayton
at Eastern Illinois
Lindenwood

Youngstown State--
Valpo
at Ohio State
Robert Morris

Southern Illinois--
Austin Peay
at Northern Illinois
at SEMO

Indiana State--
Eastern Illinois
at Indiana
at Ball State

Western Illinois--
at New Mexico State
Lindenwood
at Southern Utah

Murray State--
Presbyterian
at Louisville
at Middle Tennessee

Now tell me we're serious about competing. Our schedule is a hell of a lot more Western Illinois than it is upper part of the league.

[clenz]

SIU and ISUR have permanent H/H rivarlies with SEMO and EIU so don't look at them playing on the road as some sort of "see they do it too" deal.

[95UNIGRAD]

Funny how Drake will travel to UND but not play the Panthers...

[clenz]

Drake has played the Dakota 4 about 15 times in the last 10 years.

They signed a 2-1 with SDSU and then gave the 1 to SDSU for the cost of covering the bus to Brookings from Des Moines and a night in a hotel.

edit - went and pulled the games from my schedule comp sheet

SDSU
2009
2016
2017
2019
2023
2025

NDSU
2022

USD
2009
2015
2017
2024

UND
2011
2019
2023

ISUr
2007

ISUb
2012

WIU
2014

Lehigh
2008

Montana
2018

Montana St
2010
2012
2021
2025

UNI
2006
2013

[sevelev711]

Funny how Drake will travel to UND but not play the Panthers...

Once again, this is not some huge conspiracy, they have very good reason not to schedule us. This is not Iowa/ISU ducking us in basketball, Drake truly does get nothing out of scheduling us. It sucks for us, but it makes perfect sense for them.

[Blue42]

Once again, this is not some huge conspiracy, they have very good reason not to schedule us. This is not Iowa/ISU ducking us in basketball, Drake truly does get nothing out of scheduling us. It sucks for us, but it makes perfect sense for them.

That reason is to avoid red circling for the state of Iowa the 40 point difference between UNI football and Drake football.

They are not obligated. But that's the reason.

[sevelev711]

Yeah, exactly. That's a valid reason, in my opinion. If the script were flipped, and Drake had the scholarship football program and we didn't, yet we were still conference rivals in all the non-football sports, would you want go down to Des Moines to get throttled? I wouldn't. Frankly I'm surprised they agreed to play us in 2013 and 2006.

[havok58]

How much money is Drake getting from the Dakota schools, especially SDSU and USD since it appears Drake really likes to get their beat down from them?

[clenz]

How much money is Drake getting from the Dakota schools, especially SDSU and USD since it appears Drake really likes to get their beat down from them?

Not nearly what David sells as the reason for not playing buy games.

Same with any of their other buy games.

[BCPanther]

Not one, but TWO 1:00 kicks this fall.

Didn't want families with kids there anyway...

[FOTY]

What the actual f? Who is he listening to?