Penn State Football Announces Themes for All 2026 Home Games

Penn State football fans can start planning their attire for the season.

The Nittany Lions on Tuesday afternoon announced game themes for the remainder of their home games, including a THON game against Buffalo, Helmet Stripe against Wisconsin, All U-Day against Purdue, Military Appreciation against Minnesota and Senior Day against Rutgers. Earlier in the day, Penn State also announced its annual White Out opponent will be USC. It was previously known the team would host a Stripe Out against Marshall and Homecoming against Wisconsin.

The full game theme schedule is as follows:

9/5 vs. Marshall: Stripe Out
9/19 vs. Buffalo: THON game
9/26 vs. Wisconsin: Homecoming and Helmet Stripe
10/10 vs. USC: White Out
10/31 vs. Purdue: All U-Day
11/14 vs. Minnesota: Military Appreciation
11/21 vs. Rutgers: Senior Day

The Marshall game will kick off at 3:30 p.m. on FS1, the Buffalo game will be at noon on Big Ten Network and the USC game will come at 7:30 on NBC/Peacock, with all other games to be determined. The seating chart for Penn State’s season-opener against the Herd in the Stripe Out, can he found here.

The Nittany Lions will also participate in two Homecoming games as the road team, at Michigan on Oct. 17 and at Washington on Nov. 7, which doubles as the “Purple Reign” game. Additionally, the matchup at Northwestern on Oct. 2 will be the debut of the New Ryan Field and the game at Maryland will have a “Maryland Forever” theme.