The approaching Penn State Football schedule has several interesting games, a vintage matchup, and overall is one we can easily look forward to.

The Penn State schedule has been released, so this means Nittany Lion football fans can start the comprehensive analysis procedure of where wins and losses will come from, and as well get started preparing their gameday travels to Happy Valley too as road trips. This season’s schedule is characterised as having its typical level of huge time Big 10 conference match ups, some lousy out of conference match-ups, and a single absolute colossal clash.

Penn State takes on its standard Big 10 opponents. This year you’ll find Big 10 home games in State College versus Illinois, Northwestern, and Michigan State (who continue being a PSU menace). Illinois is the homecoming game on October 9th, which should be ideal time of year to get in Happy Valley.

Penn State will get away games in conference versus Iowa, Minnesota, Michigan, and Ohio State. One could claim the harder games are on the road inside the Big 10 this year. The Lions pass up Wisconsin this year which is really a break.

On big schedule development is the Indiana game, which was to get played on the road, will be played at FedEx Field in Landover, MD (outside Washington DC). In reality, Indiana took a huge paycheck to allow 80,000 Penn State fans to enjoy the game nearer to home in the DC region.

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

The PSU vs Bama game promises to get one of the highest regarded early season matchups in college football. Obviously it will probably be a incredibly complicated game for Penn State, in that Alabama is the returning national champion and guarantees to be incredibly good next year.

The remainder of the Penn State schedule arguably is incredibly weak. You can find out of conference games versus Youngstown State, Kent State, and Temple, all at Happy Valley. 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 look incredibly, incredibly several. The possiblity 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 create an unbalanced schedule which would mean a lot more rotation of teams on the schedule from year to year.

All round, it’s a excellent schedule for Penn State in 2010. They have the Alabama game to get through, several difficult road Big 10 games, and workable games at property in the Big 10. The game at Fed Ex field is interesting and will make for fun for the fan base and will probably be excellent for recruiting in a region which has been excellent to them.

Looking forward to a fresh Penn State football season!