Michigan State has added Prairie View A&M to its 2024 football schedule, according to the program's official schedule release for the upcoming season on Wednesday. It will be the first ever matchup between the two programs.

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The matchup against the FCS program will take place in Week 3 of the 2024 season on Sept. 14. The Spartans were originally going to face the Louisiana Ragin' Cajuns in Week 3. However, Louisiana will now have a matchup with Wake Forest next fall instead.

Spartans Illustrated reported in January that MSU's contract with Louisiana stated that if one party canceled the game, that school would pay the other $500,000 as liquidated damages.

Prairie View A&M is a historically black Land-Grant university located in Texas. It is a member of the Southwestern Athletic Conference (SWAC) and went 6-6 in 2023, winning the SWAC West Division before falling to Florida A&M in the SWAC Championship Game by a final score of 35-14.

Last season, the Panthers took on the SMU Mustangs (FBS) on the road, being sent home with a 69-0 loss.

There is a connection between the Spartans and the Panthers. Anton Goff, Prairie View A&M's director of athletics, worked at Michigan State in the past. He was the associate director of student-athlete support services and served as the academic coordinator for the football program at MSU from 2001 until 2004.

See below for Michigan State's complete 2024 football schedule.

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