The addition of Stephen F. Austin to the Southland Conference for the 2024-25 academic and athletic year has changed the 2024 Northwestern State football schedule.
The Demons still will play five home games and seven on the road and all adjustments to the schedule are contained within October and November as announced by the conference office Thursday morning.
NSU will begin Southland Conference play by traveling to Stephen F. Austin on Oct. 5, replacing what was a home SLC opener against Lamar. The Demons’ Southland home opener now will be Oct. 12 against Texas A&M-Commerce.
Northwestern State’s Homecoming contest remains scheduled for Oct. 26, but the opponent has changed as the Demons will face Lamar instead of UIW. That game will end a stretch of nine straight weeks of play for the Demons, whose open week moves from Oct. 12 to Nov. 2 on the new schedule.
The other changes to the schedule involve a pair of road games with Southeastern and Nicholls as those two flip spots on the Demons’ schedule. NSU now will travel to face the defending SLC champion Colonels in Thibodaux on Oct. 19 and will head to Hammond to face Southeastern on Nov. 9.
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2024 Northwestern State Football Schedule
Date Opponent Location
Aug. 29 at Tulsa Tulsa, Oklahoma
Sept. 7 Prairie View A&M Turpin Stadium
Sept. 12 at South Alabama Mobile, Alabama
Sept. 21 Weber State Turpin Stadium
Sept. 28 at SE Missouri Cape Girardeau, Missouri
Oct. 5 *at Stephen F. Austin Nacogdoches, Texas
Oct. 12 *Texas A&M-Commerce Turpin Stadium
Oct. 19 *at Nicholls Thibodaux
Oct. 26 *Lamar Turpin Stadium
Nov. 9 *at Southeastern Hammond
Nov. 16 *McNeese Turpin Stadium
Nov. 23 *at HCU Houston
*denotes Southland Conference game