The Big Ten office announced the conference schedule for the 2014 football season today, as approved by the Big Ten Directors of Athletics. The 2014 schedule will consist of eight games for each of the Big Ten?s 14 teams, feature a new division alignment, include the conference debut of Maryland and Rutgers and culminate with the fourth annual Big Ten Football Championship Game.

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Beginning in 2014, the Big Ten football division alignments will feature Indiana, Maryland, Michigan, Michigan State, Ohio State, Penn State and Rutgers in the East Division and Illinois, Iowa, Minnesota, Nebraska, Northwestern, Purdue and Wisconsin in the West Division. Each school will play the other six schools in its division plus two teams from the other division in 2014 and 2015, which will serve as transitional years in which the schools will still be playing eight-game schedules.

EAST

IU MD MICH MSU OSU PSU RU 9/13 — — — — — AT RU PSU 9/27 MD AT IU MIN Bye Bye NU Bye 10/4 Bye OSU AT RU NEB AT MD Bye MICH 10/11 AT IOWA Bye PSU AT PUR Bye AT MICH Bye 10/18 MSU IOWA Bye AT IU RU Bye AT OSU 10/25 Bye AT UW AT MSU MICH AT PSU OSU AT NEB 11/1 AT MICH AT PSU IU Bye ILL MD UW 11/8 PSU Bye AT NU OSU AT MSU AT IU Bye 11/15 AT RU MSU Bye AT MD AT MIN Bye IU 11/22 AT OSU AT MICH MD RU IU AT ILL AT MSU 11/29 PUR RU AT OSU AT PSU MICH MSU AT MD 12/6 BIG TEN CHAMPIONSHIP GAME

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WEST ILL IOWA MIN NEB NU PUR UW 9/13 — — — — — — — 9/27 AT NEB AT PUR AT MICH ILL AT PSU IOWA Bye 10/4 PUR Bye Bye AT MSU UW AT ILL AT NU 10/11 AT UW IU NU Bye AT MIN MSU ILL 10/18 Bye AT MD PUR AT NU NEB AT MIN Bye 10/25 MIN Bye AT ILL RU Bye Bye MD 11/1 AT OSU NU Bye PUR AT IOWA AT NEB AT RU 11/8 Bye AT MIN IOWA Bye MICH UW AT PUR 11/15 IOWA AT ILL OSU AT UW Bye Bye NEB 11/22 PSU UW AT NEB MIN AT PUR NU AT IOWA 11/28 NEB AT IOWA 11/29 AT NU AT UW ILL AT IU MIN 12/6 BIG TEN CHAMPIONSHIP GAME

Beginning in 2016, each school will play three teams from the other division as part of its nine-game schedule. The cross-division games will include one protected matchup on an annual basis between Indiana and Purdue.

Read the full release at BigTen.org.