{"id":765114,"date":"2026-02-20T18:59:19","date_gmt":"2026-02-20T18:59:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/765114\/"},"modified":"2026-02-20T18:59:19","modified_gmt":"2026-02-20T18:59:19","slug":"illinois-state-football-releases-2026-conference-schedule-sports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/765114\/","title":{"rendered":"Illinois State football releases 2026 conference schedule | Sports"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Missouri Valley Conference office announced Friday the conference portion of the 2026 schedule.<\/p>\n

The Redbirds will open their conference campaign on the road Sept. 26 in Northern Iowa to take on the Panthers.<\/p>\n

Oct. 3 marks the conference home opener at Hancock Stadium, where South Dakota State will visit.<\/p>\n

Following the meeting with the Jackrabbits, the Redbirds will hit the road to Carbondale on Oct. 17 to face Southern Illinois.<\/p>\n

Illinois State will return home for back-to-back home games starting on Oct 24. against Indiana State and a Halloween game against Murray State.<\/p>\n

After wrapping up the homestand, the Redbirds will get back-to-back games on the road, first on Nov. 7 at North Dakota and Nov. 14 at Youngstown State.<\/p>\n

ISU will wrap up the regular season in Bloomington-Normal to face South Dakota.<\/p>\n

The Redbirds went 3-3 at home in the 2025 season.<\/p>\n

TYLER GALL\u00a0is the assistant sports editor for The Vidette. Gall can be contacted at tmgall@ilstu.edu<\/a>. Follow Gall on X at @tygall_<\/a>.<\/p>\n

IF YOU SUPPORT THE VIDETTE MISSION\u00a0of providing a training laboratory for Illinois State University student journalists to learn and\u00a0sharpen viable, valuable and marketable skills in all phases of digital media,\u00a0please contribute<\/a>\u00a0to this most important cause.\u00a0Thank you.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\"\"\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Missouri Valley Conference office announced Friday the conference portion of the 2026 schedule. The Redbirds will open…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":765115,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2026],"tags":[7,45543,95304,6705,106619,107768,958,43328,967,6445,954,933],"class_list":{"0":"post-765114","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-football","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-hancock-stadium","10":"tag-illinois-state-football","11":"tag-indiana-state","12":"tag-missouri-valley-conference","13":"tag-murray-state","14":"tag-north-dakota","15":"tag-northern-iowa","16":"tag-south-dakota","17":"tag-south-dakota-state","18":"tag-southern-illinois","19":"tag-youngstown-state"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116104499721426761","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/765114","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=765114"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/765114\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/765115"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=765114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=765114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=765114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}