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Welcome back into the Lyme's 24-7 podcast. I am Tyler Donnyu. He is Daniel Gowan. A little bit later here on this show, you'll hear from our colleague Tyler Calvaruso. We're going to get into some roster retention conversation. Now that the dust has settled after the January transfer portal window, we know which Netany Lions are staying, which have explored other options through the transfer portal.

And we'll talk about those Penn State players who stuck around on campus, how they impact the depth chart on both sides of the ball.

And we'll spotlight a few particular guys that we think could really be important for this new Penn State staff as they move forward with a large mix of different players from Iowa State, other parts of

college football, and the retained players here at Penn State. A lot of different pieces. We'll

focus on some familiar names a little bit later. But Daniel, as we get into this discussion with

you, we got a Penn State 2026 football schedule to start to wrap our head around. It had been

a bit of a weight. We're all wondering why the Big Ten was dragging its feet. We'll never have that answer probably, but we do know that we actually have the schedule in front of us now. You led the way on coverage of this at Lyons 247.com earlier in the week. And we'll break down the schedule game by game here in a moment, Daniel. But what do you make of the approach this

conference has taken? You talk about big picture stuff here in college football. It certainly

seems like the SEC and the Big Ten are strides ahead of everybody else based on the college

football conversation, the hierarchy of the national landscape right now. How do you view the way

they go about their schedule making?

Because the SEC is playing catch up now.

They're going to that ninth conference matchup.

That matches the Big Ten.

But what's your take on how this conference, especially since expanding to 18 teams

and going to the West Coast a couple of years ago, has attempted to put these games together,

attempted to give its teams the best shot to have that roadmap toward playoff opportunities.

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