The 2010 Penn State Football Schedule Has Several Excellent Match Ups

The 2010 Penn State Football Schedule has been released, meaning Nittany Lion football fans can begin the thorough evaluation procedure of where wins and losses can come from, and in addition begin arranging their gameday trips to Happy Valley too as road trips. This seasons schedule is characterized as having its typical amount of huge time Big 10 conference match ups, some lousy out of conference match-ups, and one absolute monster clash.

Penn State plays its usual Big 10 opponents. This year there are Big 10 home games in State College versus Illinois, Northwestern, and Michigan State (who continue to get a PSU menace). Illinois is the homecoming game on October 9th, which ought to be ideal time of yr to get in Happy Valley.

Penn State will get away games in conference versus Iowa, Minnesota, Michigan, and Ohio State. You can argue the tougher games are on the road within the Big 10 this yr. The Lions pass up Wisconsin this year which is really a break.

On key schedule development is the Indiana game, that was to get played on the road, will now be played at FedEx Field in Landover, MD (outside Washington DC). In essence, Indiana took a huge payday to enable 80,000 Penn State fans to watch the game nearer to home in the DC area.

Without a doubt, the signature game within the season is vs . Alabama on September 11th. Penn State vs Alabama ticketswill be one of the toughest college football tickets to obtain early in the year as these 2 storied football programs match up in Tuscaloosa, AL.

The PSU vs Bama game guarantees to be one of the highly regarded early season matchups in college football. Of course it will probably be a incredibly hard game for Penn State, in that , Alabama will be the returning national champion and guarantees to be really good next year.

The remainder of the Penn State 2010 schedule arguably is very weak. You'll find out of conference games versus Youngstown State, Kent State, and Temple, all at home. Granted Temple was a bowl team last year, but none of those matchups guarantee to become contests.

Of course with all the talk of Big Ten conference expansion going on, the look of future Penn State football schedules could to begin to appear extremely, really different. The possibility of teams like Syracuse, Rutgers, UConn, and Penn State's in-state rival from the past Pitt could all of a sudden be back as conference opponents. That would definitely shake things up, and for one produce an unbalanced schedule which would mean additional rotation of teams on the schedule from year to year.

Overall, its a very good schedule for Penn State in 2010. They have the Alabama game to get through, several difficult road Big 10 game titles, and workable games at home in the Big 10. The game at Fed Ex field is interesting and will alllow for fun for the fan base and will probably be beneficial for recruiting in a area that has been very good to them.

Looking towards a fresh Penn State football year!