Last week, the ISU athletic department announced it had finalized the non-conference schedule for the 2011 season.

Later in the week, the team’s Big 12 schedule was set for 2011, the first season of the conference’s new nine-team, round-robin format.

Tuesday, the ISU football team looked a bit further ahead when it announced it had scheduled non-conference matchups through the 2017 season.

“We had to make several adjustments to our future non-conference football schedules to accommodate the new nine-game Big 12 schedule beginning next fall,” said ISU Director of Athletics Jamie Pollard. “Fortunately the changes in our schedule are not resulting in any financial penalty to Iowa State University. We really appreciate the tremendous cooperation that we received from several institutions around the country to help us adjust our schedule accordingly.”

Iowa State’s new future schedules include games with in-state rival Iowa each season, preserving the once in-doubt Cy-Hawk Series through at least 2017. The season opener in 2011 and 2013 and the openers from 2015-17 are all scheduled with in-state foe Northern Iowa.

Each season, Iowa State will face one opponent from NCAA Division I Championship Subdivision, formerly Division 1-AA, the division directly below the Bowl Subdivision Iowa State plays in.