BGSU hockey has announced its 2025-26 non-conference schedule, adding to the Central Collegiate Hockey Association schedule released on May 13. The Falcons play four non-conference series and three exhibition matches in their fully released schedule.
Bowling Green’s season starts against a familiar opponent, a single home exhibition game against Robert Morris, whom the Falcons have played each of the last two seasons in both exhibition and official matches.
The only pre-CCHA season series for the Orange and Brown is on the road at Niagara on Oct. 10 and 11, an 18-16-3 team in 2024-25 who lost in the first round of the Atlantic Hockey America (AHA) championship. BG finishes with the University of Windsor in the Slater Family Ice Arena on Oct. 17.
Head coach Dennis “Willi” Williams fills the rest of 2024 with CCHA opponents and an intermittent home series against Princeton on Nov. 28 and 29.
The final competition of the calendar year will see the USA National Team Development Program at home on Dec. 29.
Ohio State is how Bowling Green will start 2026 on the second and third of January, their first home and home series of the season.
Buckeyes and Falcons games always draw a highly dense crowd, with an attendance of over 4,500 in the BG vs. OSU game in The Slate last season.
Falcons hold a 94-81-9 record all-time over the Buckeyes despite being 1-8-1 in their last 10 matchups.
Three more CCHA series will go by before the final non-conference games of the regular season, Bowling Green’s first time playing Notre Dame since 2019.
The home and home series on January 30 and 31 will start a very difficult back end of the CCHA season, with the Big-Ten opponent beginning a stretch of four of the top five teams from the 2024-25 CCHA.
The regular season begins on Oct. 10 against Niagara in New York and ends on Feb. 28 against Michigan Tech in Michigan, with the CCHA Mason Cup Quarterfinals starting March 6.
BG plays 16 games (plus three exhibition) before and 18 games after the turn of the new year, the exact middle of the season occurring between the first and second Ohio State games on Jan. 2 and 3.
Williams enters his second season with over half the team being new faces to Falcon fans, 11 as freshmen, and two new assistant coaches. The Falcons will try to top a successful 2024-25, an 18-14-4 record with BG’s first playoff series win in six years.
