Penn State wrestling and coach Cael Sanderson can break a 74-year-old national record during its newly-released schedule.
Penn State wrestling will be the landslide favorite to win its fifth straight national championship when its season begins in mid-November.
The Nittany Lions also expect to own the nation's all-time longest winning streak, along the way.
When will they make history?
Well, it doesn't figure to happen in State College, according to the newly-released Penn State schedule. Rather, coach Cael Sanderson and his program expect to tie and break the decades-old, 75-match record at the Collegiate Duals in Nashville, Tennesse, the week before Christmas.
The Lions are expected to wrestle Stanford and North Dakota State there in their last action before the holiday break and the start of their Big Ten schedule.
Penn State hasn't lost a match in six seasons, since a 19-17 defeat at Iowa in January of 2020. Incredibly enough, they haven't lost at home in 10 years.
The Lions will begin this year's schedule with a Bryce Jordan Center home match against Oklahoma on Friday, Nov. 14. In December, they'll wrestle at Drexel and Wyoming around their yearly match with Lehigh in Rec Hall.
Penn State's Big Ten home schedule includes Rutgers and Indiana in Rec Hall and Nebraska and Ohio State in the Bryce Jordan Center.
The Lions will conclude their dual meet schedule with a Rec Hall match against Princeton on the final weekend of February.
They will host the Big Ten Championships in early March before heading to the national championships in Cleveland two weeks later.
The Lions, who will be gunning for their 13th NCAA team title in 15 years, have won 71 straight dual meets, which is No. 2 in major college history. The Oklahoma State Cowboys won 75 straight from 1937 to 1951, before college wrestling was divided into divisions.
The Lions will be expected to run the table again this season, primarily because they return seven of their 10 All-Americans − and two previous individual national champions (Mitchell Mesenbrink, Levi Haines) − from last year's team that broke their own NCAA points record.
They expect to fill their holes, in part, with some combination of the two top high school recruits in the nation (Marcus Blaze, under-20 world champion PJ Duke), an Ohio State transfer (All-American Rocco Welsh) and a Japanese world champ (Masanosuke Ono).
Penn State wrestling 2025-26 schedule
OKLAHOMA, Nov. 14, 7 p.m. (Bryce Jordan Center)
at Black Knight Invitational, Nov. 23, 9 a.m. (West Point, N.Y.)
at Drexel, Dec. 5, 7:30 p.m.
LEHIGH, Dec. 7, 1 p.m.
at Wyoming Dec. 13, TBA
Collegiate Duals, vs. Stanford, North Dakota State, Dec. 20 (Nashville, Tenn.)
RUTGERS, Jan. 10, TBA
at Iowa, Jan. 16, TBA
at Northwestern, Jan. 18, TBA
INDIANA, Jan. 23, TBA
at Maryland, Jan. 25, TBA
NEBRASKA, Jan. 30, TBA (Bryce Jordan Center)
at Michigan, Feb. 6, TBA
OHIO STATE, Feb. 13, TBA (Bryce Jordan Center)
PRINCETON, Feb. 18 or Feb. 20, 7 p.m.
Big Ten Championships, March 7-8 (Bryce Jordan Center)
NCAA Wrestling Championships, March 19-21 (Cleveland, Ohio)
Frank Bodani covers Penn State wrestling for the York Daily Record and USA Today Network. Contact him at [email protected] and follow him on X, formerly known as Twitter, @YDRPennState.
This article originally appeared on York Daily Record: How Penn State wrestling can make history on its 2025-26 schedule
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