Penn State’s 2023 soccer schedule contains two outdated rivals, two Huge Ten checks and a closing date with Michigan. Regardless of the competitors, the schedule isn’t distinctive for October, which the Lions confronted final season.
With a purpose to compete for convention titles and seats on the Faculty Soccer Playoffs, Penn should discover September with potential tips that embody a protracted damaging to start out the season. However total, it was a pleasant schedule that included a week-long farewell match and never a convention earlier than the October go to to Ohio.
Right here is Penn State 2023 soccer schedule.
West Virginia
- When: September 2
- Venue: Beaver Stadium
- Sequence Historical past: Penn State leads 48-9-2
- Final assembly: Penn State 40-26, 1992
- Be aware: Groups that play yearly from 1947-92 resume their competitors after 30 years aside. The Lions are at the moment on a four-game successful streak.
Delaware
- When: September 9
- Venue: Beaver Stadium
- Sequence Historical past: First Assembly
- Notably: The Blues are enjoying FCS for the second time in three years, beating Villanova in 2021. The Blue Hens went 8-5 final season, dropping within the first spherical of the FCS qualifiers.
Illinois
- When: September 16
- Location: Champaign, Unwell.
- Sequence Historical past: Penn State leads 20-6
- Final assembly: Illinois 20-18 (9OT)
- Be aware: Put together for a group of oral historical past of the longest extra time sport in faculty soccer historical past. As well as, that is a tremendous Huge Ten opening match towards eight successful groups. And naturally it’s on the best way.
Iowa
- When: September 23
- Venue: Beaver Stadium
- Historical past Sequence: Penn State Main 17-14
- Final assembly: Iowa 23-20 in 2021
- Notably, Iowa averaged simply 17.7 factors per sport final season, ending twelfth within the Huge Ten, prompting Kirk Ferentz to deal with a few of the necessities. First: Switch of defender Cade McNamara from Michigan. This can be a robust contender for White Out.
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Northwest
- When: September 30
- Location: Evanston, Unwell.
- Sequence Historical past: Penn State leads 15-5
- Final assembly: Penn State 17-7 in 2022
- It must be famous that coach Pat Fitzgerald will spend the offseason attempting to include his last-ranked mistake within the Huge Ten (13.8 ppg).
Massachusetts
- When: September 30
- Venue: Beaver Stadium
- Sequence historical past: Penn State leads 1-0
- Final assembly: Penn State 48-7 in 2014
- Remarkably: The Lions landed as a uncommon non-conference mid-season sport that befell simply after the farewell week earlier than the journey to Ohio. UMass coach is former Michigan Defensive Coordinator Don Brown.
Ohio
- When: October 21
- Location: Columbus. Oh Oh
- Sequence Historical past: Ohio Leads 24-41
- Final assembly: Ohio 44-31 in 2022
- Penn State misplaced 5 straight video games in Columbus, most lately at Ohio Stadium towards caretaker supervisor Luke Fickell in 2011. And so begin 6 video games towards Huge Ten East.
Indiana
- When: October 28
- Venue: Beaver Stadium
- Sequence Historical past: Penn State leads 24-2
- Final assembly: Penn State 45-14 in 2022
- Be aware: The Lions are 13-0 at house towards the Hoosiers. Will Tom Allen be the coach once they return? Indiana fell to the sidelines final season, dropping seven of their final eight video games after Beginning in a 3-0 outcome.
Maryland
- When: November 4
- Location: Faculty Park, Md.
- Sequence Historical past: Penn State leads 42-3-1
- Final assembly: Penn State 30-0 in 2022
- Be aware: One other teaching query: Was Mike Locksley nonetheless Maryland coach when the Lions got here? Greater than that, will Taulia Tagovailoa be a defender?
Michigan
- When: November 11
- Venue: Beaver Stadium
- Sequence Historical past: Michigan Leads 16-10
- Final assembly: Michigan 41-17 in 2022
- Who must be on Michigan shortlist if Jim Harbaugh returns to the NFL? Penn State may very well be one of many greatest beneficiaries if Harbaugh leaves. Penn State, in the meantime, has by no means hosted a November White Out. This may very well be the primary time if the TV doesn’t intrude (count on Fox Huge Midday sport).
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Rutgers
- When: November 18
- Venue: Beaver Stadium
- Sequence Historical past: Penn State leads 31-2
- Final assembly: Penn State 55-10 in 2022
- It must be famous that Rutgers haven’t scored greater than 10 factors towards Penn State since becoming a member of the Huge Ten. Can new offensive coordinator Kirk Ciarrocca, who labored in Penn in 2020, change that?
Michigan
- When: November 25
- Location: East Lansing, Mich.
- Sequence Historical past: Michigan leads 18-17-1
- Final assembly: Penn State 35-16 in 2022
- It must be famous that the Spartans and coach Mel Tucker must be reset after the 2022 Melancholy. They are going to be severe portal gamers, a technique Tucker has efficiently utilized in 2021.
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