Penn State Football Schedule Breakdown: Sure Wins, Potential Losses, Big Ten Teams Missed

Pete Fiutak

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Penn State cheerleaders pump up the crowd outside Beaver Stadium before the start of a NCAA football game against Massachusetts Saturday, Oct. 14, 2023, in State College, Pa.

In the new 18-team Big Ten, it’s all about the schedules, who everyone misses and where, and when the nasty games are. You know who the biggest teams are - some get a much bigger break than others.

No game is a 100% lock in the Big Ten, and there are always surprises, but for the most part, what are the relatively certain wins on the 2024 Penn State football schedule? What are the likely underdog games - the true 50/50 games are left alone - and which Big Ten teams does Penn State miss?

Penn State Football Schedule: Relatively certain Nittany Lion wins

Bowling Green, Kent State, at Purdue, UCLA

Penn State Football Schedule: Relatively certain Nittany Lion underdog games

Ohio State, at USC

Penn State Football Schedule: Who do the Nittany Lions miss in the Big Ten?

Indiana, Iowa, Michigan, Michigan State, Nebraska, Northwestern, Oregon, Rutgers

2024 Penn State Football Schedule

Aug 31 at West Virginia
Sept 7 Bowling Green
Sept 14 OPEN DATE
Sept 21 Kent State
Sept 28 Illinois
Oct 5 UCLA
Oct 12 at USC
Oct 19 OPEN DATE
Oct 26 at Wisconsin
Nov 2 Ohio State
Nov 9 Washington
Nov 16 at Purdue
Nov 23 at Minnesota
Nov 30 Maryland

Pete Fiutak

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Publisher of CollegeFootballNews.com starting in 1998, Pete Fiutak was a college football part of the very start of Rivals, Scout, the FOXSports.com relaunch, Stadium/Campus Insiders, and the USA TODAY College Wire sites. 

He was the first ever on-air guest on CBS Sports Network, was a talking head for five years at Stadium, and did in-stadium TV work at the first five College Football Playoff National Championships. But all anyone really seems to care about is that he did all the player ratings for various college football and basketball video games for four years in the 2000s.