Rutgers football, along with the rest of the Big ten conference, had its schedule released on January 27th. Rutgers Football Schedule: Credit Rutgers Athletics | Rutgers AthleticsRutgers will start the season with a light non-conference slate, as it is set to take on UMass, Boston College, and Howard. Rutgers will then be on a bye week before going on a two game road trip. Rutgers will head out to Illinois to take on Northwestern as the second part of their road trip. Those three games include a road trip to Wisconsin, a home date with Nebraska, and another road trip out to Penn State.