With most FBS schedules pretty much finalized, Collegefootballfan.com announces its tentative 2018 schedule. With a combination of games hosted by perennial favorites Navy and Penn State, we’ve come up with other games featuring the newest team to the FBS and a few new FCS venues to attend for the first time. Pending date switches for TV programming and times yet to be announced, our schedule is far from finalized as we look to possibly add a few Thursday or Friday night games no mater what the level of NCAA competition.
We open with our first trip ever to the University of Maine where they will host archival New Hampshire in the season opener for both Colonial Athletic Conference squads on August 31. We plan to see two games at Boston College where the Eagles will host intrastate foe UMass and ACC foe Miami Hurricanes for only their second conference showdown ever.
RB AJ DILLON RETURNS TO BC FOR HIS SOPH SEASON AFTER 1,589 RUSHING YARDS AND 14 TDS IN 2017. WE SAW HIM IN ACTION AGAINST IOWA IN THE NEW ERA PINSTRIPE BOWL LAST SEASON.
We will be back in Annapolis four times this season to see the Mids host American Athletic West contender Memphis early in September. They will then play Lehigh in their series of games against FCS foes from the Patriot League against whom Navy competes in most other NCAA sports. The Houston Cougars come to town with DT Ed Oliver who is being touted during the preseason as a Heisman Trophy contender. Tulsa follows in November before we head up to Philly in December for the greatest rivalry in college football when the Mids play Army. The Cadets won last season, 14-13, as a Navy FG attempt went wide left in the swirling winds at The Linc as time expired.
Happy Valley will be fired up again and ready for a White-out when the Nittany Lions play host to the Ohio State Buckeyes at Beaver Stadium on September 29. The Big Ten East will be up for grabs. Wisconsin, winners of the Big Ten West last season and sure contenders again in 2018 after finishing 13-1 last season, visit in November. We’ll fill in Thanksgiving weekend again with Maryland in Central PA after seeing the Lions thrash the Terps down in College Park last year, 66-3. We’ll look for improvements from the visitors.
QB TRACE McSORLEY RETURNS TO LEAD THE PSU OFFENSE AGAIN IN 2018.
In addition to Maine, we will go to our first game ever at Holy Cross to see the Crusaders take on Lehigh in a late season Patriot League battle on a Saturday afternoon in Worcester, MA. Our Big Tailgate is slated for September 22 when we will take a busload of fellow fans and Knights of Columbus to see the Buffalo Bulls of the Mid-American Conference play against the Scarlet Knights of Rutgers at the Birthplace of College Football. We have a great tailgating spot there. In early November, we will be back in New England to see the Liberty Flames visit the UMass Minutemen in their inaugural FBS season under their HC Turner Gill.
The weekend of October 13 is open right now for a possible double header weekend to go to two new venues for us, or there is the possibility of a big-time SEC clash. Our scheduling is not over. Of course, there’s bowl season that we will be planning with the possibility of finally getting to the CFP finale out in California. For our complete schedule click here to see our latest 2018 schedule update.
LOOK FOR OUR FLAG TO BE UNFURLED WHEREVER WE ATTEND GAMES IN 2018.