SPOKANE, Wash.- The Big Sky Conference released its conference football schedules for the next three years.
The future 2022-24 schedules will still feature eight league games that include two annual opponents, some of whom have changed since the last time, and six rotating opponents. This format was selected in part based on feedback from the league membership about wanting to make sure teams did not go a long time during the three-year slate without playing a fellow conference opponent.
"The Big Sky's new football scheduling model preserves so many of our most historic annual rivalries while ensuring a balanced rotation of playing each conference opponent," Commissioner Tom Wistrcill said. "For this three-year scheduling block that begins in 2022, our 12 football programs and their supporters will enjoy knowing that each school will play every other Big Sky school at least twice – once at home and once on the road – so each player will have the opportunity to compete in every stadium and each local fanbase will have the chance to see every conference team come to their town."
League schools also had increased input into the scheduling process, with each institution allowed to request their preferred annual opponents (every school got at least one of their requests) and one week per season during which they would like to be home or not at home (either away or open). The nine non-California-based teams will play one game each season at either Cal Poly, Sacramento State, or UC Davis, and will host one of those three every year as well.
Here is a look at the Bengals conference schedule from 2022-24.
2022
Sept. 24 at Northern Colorado
Oct. 1 Montana
Oct. 8 at Montana State
Oct. 15 Cal Poly
Oct. 22 NAU
Nov. 5 at UC Davis
Nov. 12 at Weber State
Nov. 19 Idaho
2023
Sept. 23 Northern Colorado
Sept. 30 at Montana
Oct. 14 Eastern Washington
Oct. 21 at Portland State
Oct. 28 at Sacramento State
Nov. 4 Weber State
Nov. 11 UC Davis
Nov. 18 at Idaho
2024
Sept. 28 Montana State
Oct. 5 at Cal Poly
Oct. 12 Portland State
Oct. 19 at NAU
Oct. 26 Sacramento State
Nov. 9 at Weber State
Nov. 16 at Weber State
Nov. 23 Idaho
