TV Assignments and Kickoff Times Announced for IU's First Three Games

IU Athletics Release

BLOOMINGTON, Ind. – The Big Ten Conference and its television partners have announced kickoff times and networks for the first three weeks of the college football season. The times include the home debut for head coach Curt Cignetti, a Friday night contest, and the Big Ten opener at UCLA.

Cignetti will begin his Indiana tenure on Saturday, August 31, with a 3:30 p.m. ET kickoff against FIU at Memorial Stadium. The 2024 meeting will be the fourth all-time between the two programs and the first since a 38-28 Indiana victory in Miami, Florida, during the 2018 season. The game will be televised on Big Ten Network.

The Hoosiers will square off with Western Illinois under the Friday night lights on September 6 at 7 p.m. ET for the first meeting between the two programs. This will be the seventh Friday night contest in IU history with a 4-2 overall mark in those games. The game will also be televised on the Big Ten Network.

In the first Big Ten game to feature one of the four new members of the conference, UCLA and Indiana meet for the first time in the historic Rose Bowl at 7:30 p.m. ET on NBC and Peacock on September 14th. Indiana will make a trip to Pasadena, California, for the first time since its 1968 Rose Bowl appearance that followed a 1967 Big Ten championship and culminated with a final ranking of No. 4 in the Associated Press rankings.