Well well well, we meet again. The Big Ten Conference is now updating the football conference matchups through 2028 (that is unless another round of expansion happens in the next five years). The conference made the schedules, now called the Flex Protect XVIII Plan, with several “primary objectives” in mind, including balanced travel, control and flexibility as it relates to the changing CFP, and balance of historic and traditional matchups. Like the previous attempt at scheduling, there will be protected matchups that will occur every season. They are shown below (poor Penn State):
So, Purdue will keep two annual matchups against Illinois and Indiana.