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Michael Niziolek of the Bloomington Herald-Times reported a while ago that Indiana and Virginia were in talks to cancel the upcoming football series. That seems to have taken a turn today, with the move being as close to an official confirmation as you’re gonna get:
Indiana
ADcancels home/home series w/Virginia in 2027-28 & must pay Cavs’ $500,000 for canceling series, @michaelniziolek reports. Instead, Indiana has added home games w/Kennesaw State in 2027, Austin Peay in 2028 & Eastern Illinois in 2029
— Brett McMurphy (@Brett_McMurphy) July 15, 2025
That’s the second power-five nonconference series the program has bought its way out of after the planned slate against Louisville was reduced to a single matchup in 2023. As McMurphy states, the 2027 game has been replaced with one against Kennesaw State.
Indiana’s next scheduled non-conference game against a power-five opponent* will take place in 2030 when the Hoosiers are set to travel to South Bend to take on Notre Dame in the first matchup of a home-and-home series the two programs agreed to in 2021.
Naturally, as with the Louisville cancellation, this move has ignited a mini-firestorm online bashing the Hoosiers’ scheduling habits.
What do you think? Do you approve or disapprove of Indiana’s series cancellations? Should the Hoosiers play Notre Dame as scheduled?
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