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Yahoo
3 days ago
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Fox announces game time for Texas at Ohio State, and fans won't be happy
Ohio State fans got another gut punch from the network that seems to love the Buckeyes just a little too much. Fox announced that it will air two OSU games in its Big Noon slot. One is obvious. The Game, featuring Ohio State vs. Michigan, will be a Fox game. While Fox didn't specify that the game would be a noon kickoff, it traditionally has been so in the past. The other game... well, fans are not going to be happy about this one. Fox announced that the matchup between Texas and the Buckeyes will be a Big Noon featured game of the week when the Longhorns come to town on August 30 in what will most likely be a top-five matchup. Advertisement Athletic Director Ross Bjork has been vocal in advocating for Ohio State to get more football games in primetime. The Buckeyes have carried the weight of the conference when it comes to the Fox Big Noon Game of the Week. Since the inception of the show in 2019, Ohio State has been the network's featured game 22 times. Michigan is next on the list with 17 Big Noon games. In 2024 alone, OSU was the network's featured game five times and had a total of seven noon starts. To say fans are getting tired of the early time slot would be an understatement. Especially after the electric atmosphere that was Ohio Stadium when it hosted Tennessee in the first round of the College Football Playoff. We've had a taste and we want more. It's time for Fox to start spreading the Big Noon love with others. This article originally appeared on Buckeyes Wire: Gametime for Ohio State vs Texas has been announced by Fox
Yahoo
4 days ago
- Business
- Yahoo
Texas reportedly nixed Ohio State's idea of playing Week 1 game on Sunday night
Ohio State was interested in opening the season against Texas in primetime. Fox Sports confirmed to Front Office Sports that there was discussion about moving the Buckeyes' Week 1 game against the Longhorns to Sunday night. The game is currently scheduled for noon ET on Aug. 30 and Ohio State pitched the idea of playing the game on Aug. 31. Per Fox Sports' Michael Mulvihill, the network was willing to push the game back but Texas wasn't too keen on the idea. From FOS: Mulvihill revealed that Ohio State A.D. Ross Bjork approached Fox with the idea. Since 2019, Fox has been putting its top Big Ten or Big 12 game of the week at noon—labeling the window Big Noon—in a strategy to maximize viewership as the games would no longer be competing with the highest-profile matchups on other networks, which traditionally air later in the day. In this case, it would have been possible to move the game to Sunday because the matchup will take place before the NFL season kicks off. Mulvihill revealed that Ohio State A.D. Ross Bjork approached Fox with the idea. Since 2019, Fox has been putting its top Big Ten or Big 12 game of the week at noon—labeling the window Big Noon—in a strategy to maximize viewership as the games would no longer be competing with the highest-profile matchups on other networks, which traditionally air later in the day. In this case, it would have been possible to move the game to Sunday because the matchup will take place before the NFL season kicks off. It's not news at this point to say there is a segment of Ohio State fans who are sick of their team playing at noon. Fox has relied heavily on the Buckeyes for its early window in recent years and Ohio State played seven of its 12 regular-season games at noon ET on the way to the national title in 2024. Backlash has even gotten political. A member of the Ohio general assembly authored a bill designed to prevent state schools in Ohio from playing at noon outside of rivalry games that have typically kicked off at that time like Ohio State's annual game vs. Michigan. The College Football Playoff rematch between the Buckeyes and Longhorns is the marquee game of Week 1 and is set to start a Saturday that also includes Alabama at Florida State and LSU at Clemson. Had the game been moved to Sunday, the game would be at the same time as Notre Dame's trip to Miami. That game, on ABC, is currently a standalone game after Virginia Tech and South Carolina also play on Sunday. The game is also the second straight year that Texas will play an early-season game against a Big Ten opponent at noon ET on Fox. A year ago, the Longhorns played at Michigan in Week 2 and took down the defending national champions 31-12.
USA Today
13-05-2025
- Sport
- USA Today
Fox announces game time for Texas at Ohio State, and fans won't be happy
Fox announces game time for Texas at Ohio State, and fans won't be happy Ohio State fans got another gut punch from the network that seems to love the Buckeyes just a little too much. Fox announced that it will air two OSU games in its Big Noon slot. One is obvious. The Game, featuring Ohio State vs. Michigan, will be a Fox game. While Fox didn't specify that the game would be a noon kickoff, it traditionally has been so in the past. The other game... well, fans are not going to be happy about this one. Fox announced that the matchup between Texas and the Buckeyes will be a Big Noon featured game of the week when the Longhorns come to town on August 30 in what will most likely be a top-five matchup. Athletic Director Ross Bjork has been vocal in advocating for Ohio State to get more football games in primetime. The Buckeyes have carried the weight of the conference when it comes to the Fox Big Noon Game of the Week. Since the inception of the show in 2019, Ohio State has been the network's featured game 22 times. Michigan is next on the list with 17 Big Noon games. In 2024 alone, OSU was the network's featured game five times and had a total of seven noon starts. To say fans are getting tired of the early time slot would be an understatement. Especially after the electric atmosphere that was Ohio Stadium when it hosted Tennessee in the first round of the College Football Playoff. We've had a taste and we want more. It's time for Fox to start spreading the Big Noon love with others.
USA Today
23-04-2025
- Sport
- USA Today
Ohio State athletic director Ross Bjork calls for changes to college football calendar
Ohio State athletic director Ross Bjork calls for changes to college football calendar As wildly entertaining as the new, 12-team College Football Playoff was, it was an arduous grind. And while Ohio State was able to outlast everyone on its way to the national championship, it has become increasingly clear that something needs to change with the college football calendar. Not only do teams have to try and navigate a postseason that is longer than at any time in history, but the transfer portal straddles it all, the Early Signing Period gets thrown in, and incoming classes that have early enrollees start to arrive on campus. And that's just the start of it, there are many more things going on behind the scenes that make life awfully difficult in the big city. Count current Ohio State athletic director Ross Bjork as one who is ready to throw his voice behind the need to change the calendar. He spoke to ESPN and threw his weight behind any efforts to start the conversations in an earnest manner. 'We've had so many disruptions over the last five-plus years that I think the time is now to not be reactive, be proactive,' Bjork told the 'Worldwide Leader.' 'When we had this setting here with the commissioners, our job was to provide feedback on what was it like to go through the 12-team playoff ... but it all gets impacted by the calendar. I felt it was important to lay that out with everyone in the room to say, separate from the CFP process, if we don't fix our calendar as an industry, then we're going to continue to have unintended consequences.' It's hard to argue with Bjork, and he's not the only AD of prominent football schools who is stomping for changes. In fact, three other programs that were a part of the CFP also voiced opinions. Notre Dame's Pete Bevacqua, Texas' Chris Del Conte and Penn State's Pat Kraft also expressed concerns at spring meetings. Bjork also voiced concern over countable athletically-related activities (CARA). Many waivers and exceptions had to be made because of the 20-hour practice limit per week while classes are in session. Those athletic calendars don't always align between programs. "When you don't have class, there is no limit to CARA hours," Bjork continues. "It created some disadvantages. It all goes back to what's countable CARA hours, NCAA structure. The portal is the next big conversation after the House case and truly what kind of rules can we set? Will we have the authority around transfer rules to set some parameters?" Bjork also called for changes to the transfer portal window and alignment with the House settlement for revenue sharing if approved. "May makes the most sense" to align player contracts with the portal, Bjork told ESPN. "If everyone follows the structure, it's going to be a great structure. And everyone has to follow the rules," he said, "and agree that this is the structure, which we have to. If we don't do that, then what good is the settlement?" Bjork has some points, and if revenue had anything to do with it, you have to believe all of this would move much faster. Unfortunately, when it comes to logistics and aligning an academic calendar, the wheels seem to turn much slower. Contact/Follow us @BuckeyesWire on X (formerly Twitter) and like our page on Facebook to follow ongoing coverage of Ohio State news, notes and opinion. Follow Phil Harrison on X.
USA Today
19-02-2025
- Sport
- USA Today
Ohio State AD Ross Bjork voices support for expanded College Football Playoff
Ohio State athletic director Ross Bjork voiced support Tuesday for further expanding the College Football Playoff. The playoff expanded from four teams to 12 this year, and the Buckeyes were the chief beneficiary. OSU was ranked sixth in the final ranking by the CFP committee – and slotted No. 8 in the bracket – before winning four games to win the national championship. Now there is speculation that the playoff will expand again, with 2026 the most likely date for expansion. 'We're just at a time where you have to put everything on the table to really capitalize on the moment in college athletes,' Bjork said at Ohio Stadium to discuss the Blue Jackets' Stadium Series hockey game against Detroit on March 1. 'If we're sharing revenue with the athletes, which is the right thing to do, how do we produce more content? How do we have more high-level matchups? More:Ohio State trustees sign off on coach Ryan Day raise, contract extension through 2031 "Clearly, the viewership and the CFP people want to watch these games and they want high-level matchups, so I think we owe it to the game. We owe it to our athletes to say, 'Can we have more content?' And more content means more games. So is that 14 (teams)? Is that 16? I don't know what the right number is. More:According to obit, former Ohio State football player Ben Christman died of natural causes 'I think there's a lot of different models that we've studied. Clearly, the Big Ten and the SEC were at the forefront. We had the biggest brands. But we also need to also protect the game of college football to make sure that it's accessible for as many people that can really live in this world as possible. So I'm for expansion again.' Dispatch reporter Nathan Hart contributed to this story. Get more Ohio State football news by listening to our podcasts.
