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Ohio State vs. Nebraska 2020 football Preview And Prediction

Ohio State will welcome Nebraska to Columbus for the opener of the Big Ten college football season. We’ve got your preview and prediction.

Records

Ohio State (0-0), Nebraska (0-0)

Broadcast, TV, Game Time

Date: Saturday, October 24
Game Time: Noon ET
Network: FOX
Venue: Ohio Stadium – Capacity – 104,944 (no fans permitted due to COVID-19 restrictions)
All-Time Series: Ohio State leads 7-1
Last Meeting: Ohio State defeated Nebraska 48-7 in 2019

Ohio State football is back Buckeye fans! The long wait is finally over as Ryan Day and company have their eyes set on a college football crown. But before we dream of beating the Tigers and Crimson Tides of the college football world, focus has to remain steadfast on the opponent at hand… hello Cornhuskers.

The Big Ten did Nebraska no favors when handing out new schedules for a revamped 2020 season. Was it punishment for being so vocal against conference leadership and their handling of football in a pandemic? We can speculate, but the bottom line is – we’re ready to play some football!

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Ohio State heavily favored to beat Nebraska according to BetMGM

Ohio State is a heavy, heavy favorite to win its first game of the season against the Nebraska Cornhuskers according to BetMGM.

We’re almost there Buckeye fans! The Ohio State football season is just about a week away. And with the season ready to take off, the oddsmakers are starting to release the betting lines.

Nebraska will be coming to Columbus on Saturday, October 24 and not many experts are giving the Cornhuskers much of a chance. In fact, according to the opening line of BetMGM Ohio State is favored by the Buckeyes by a whopping 26 points.

Other notable games include Penn State favored by only 6.5 points over Indiana, while Minnesota is favored by 2.5 over Michigan.

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The line may move up or down a point or two and other oddsmakers may release their own line in the coming days, but it looks like the Buckeyes shouldn’t have too much trouble in their opening matchup. Look for our Buckeyes Wire preview and prediction early next week to get our perspective and analysis.

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ESPN Bowl Projections: Texas Longhorns to meet former Big 12 foe?

In their latest bowl projections ESPN puts the Texas Longhorns and Nebraska Cornhuskers in the Cactus Bowl.

Each and every week the duo at ESPN of Mark Schlabach and Kyle Bonagura release their updated bowl projections. This week’s edition has no Big 12 team making the cut for the College Football Playoffs. The usual suspects are at the top with Clemson, Alabama and Ohio State. The other team in the four-team playoff seems to fluctuate on a week to week basis.

College Football Playoffs projection

Both Bonagura and Schlabach agree on the National Championship game featuring Alabama and Clemson. Currently they are the No. 1 and No. 2 teams in the country. Here is how they believe the playoff breaks down.

CFP Projections Sugar Bowl Rose Bowl Title Game
Bonagura Clemson vs Georgia Alabama vs Ohio State Clemson vs Alabama
Schlabach Clemson vs Oregon Alabama vs Ohio State Clemson vs Alabama

Texas Longhorns Bowl Projections

For the Longhorns, both have them in the Cactus Bowl in Phoenix, Arizona. They do not agree on who the Longhorns will match up with.

Bonagura Texas Longhorns Purdue Boilermakers
Schlabach Texas Longhorns Nebraska Cornhuskers

A matchup against Nebraska would mean these two teams would meet on the field for the first time since 2010. Texas owns the all-time series 10-4 and have won the last six games. These two teams met in the first ever Big 12 Championship game in 1996, the Longhorns upset the Cornhuskers. This would bring up plenty of memories given these two teams were in the same conference for 16 years before Nebraska left for the Big Ten Conference.

A matchup with Purdue would mean these two would meet for the third time in their history. The Longhorns have won both matchups in this series. However, they haven’t met on the field in 69 years.

Big 12 Bowl Game Projections

Bowl Game Bonagura Schlabach
Cotton Bowl Oklahoma State vs BYU Oklahoma State vs BYU
Alamo Bowl Iowa State vs USC Iowa State vs Washington
Cheez-It Bowl Kansas State vs NC State Kansas State vs Miami (Fl)
Texas Bowl Oklahoma vs Ole Miss Oklahoma vs Auburn
Liberty Bowl West Virginia vs Missouri West Virginia vs South Carolina
Armed Forces Bowl Baylor vs UCF Baylor vs SMU

 

FOX’s Big Noon Kickoff show to visit Ohio Stadium for opener against Nebraska

FOX’s Big Noon Kickoff show announced a live, in-person visit for Ohio State’s opener against Nebraska in two weeks.

Two weeks. That’s all that stands between a season of uncertainty to the official kick off of the Ohio State and Big Ten football season.

And when that happens against Nebraska at Noon on FOX, the popular Big Noon Kickoff show be a part of all the fun. According to a release from FOX on Saturday, the show with Urban Meyer, Rob Stone, Matt Leinhart, and Reggie Bush will “be back in the Horseshoe in two weeks.”

The show will air beginning at 10 A.M. EDT live from Ohio Stadium, followed by the game at Noon on Saturday, October 24 — the premier window over the last couple of seasons for FOX College Football’s biggest game of the day.

It’ll be a little strange seeing the studio hosts live in the ‘Shoe without any fans, but it still means the start of the season is a big deal. We’re almost there folks.

 

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Ohio State to open 2020 college football season at home against Nebraska

Ohio State will host Nebraska in the first game of the 2020 football schedule. It was announced on FOX’s Big Noon Kickoff show Saturday.

We now know who Ohio State’s first opponent in the 2020 shortened football schedule will be. FOX’s Big Noon Kickoff show revealed the entire Big Ten schedule Saturday morning and you’re going to like the opening game for the Buckeyes.

That’s because they are brothers in arms really in the whole push to play football this fall. The Buckeyes will host none other than the Nebraska Cornhuskers in game one, at home, in the ‘Shoe on Saturday, October 24.

The game will be televised by FOX and kick off in the Noon window.

Also notable, Ohio State will travel to Penn State on Halloween for game No. 2 of the season (yikes). Game time for that one is still TBD, but with no fans in the stands, you can bank on it not being a whiteout.

The rest of the schedule is currently still being released, so check back and we’ll have more information and analysis on what the landscape of the Big Ten looks like.

 

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WATCH: Nebraska president caught stating big news about Huskers football

Ted Carter forgot that his mic was still on.

You always have to remember to turn off the mic!

University of Nebraska president Ted Carter unfortunately forgot to do that on Tuesday when he was caught stating that some big news is coming regarding Huskers football on Tuesday afternoon or evening.

“We’re getting ready to announce the Huskers and Big Ten football tonight”, said Carter in a conversation with Bob Hinson, director of the National Strategic Research Institute.

Are signs pointing to a Big Ten fall football announcement tonight?

Take it for what it’s worth, but there have been some positive signs shared to Twitter today that indicate a pending Big Ten announcement.

Okay listen, before we get too excited, we’ve been down this road before. We’ve heard reports and read the Buckeye — er, tea leaves thinking the conference was on the cusp of announcing that Big Ten football was back for this fall. Each time, things went on with nary a whisper.

Well, here we are again. There are a couple of things that were shared on Twitter today that do point to something perhaps coming today or in the very near future — and it’s nothing but positive.

Again, take it for what it’s worth. We didn’t write the memo, we are only distributing it.

First, the official Minnesota Football Twitter account posted the following this morning. Is it a sign of things to come? Maybe, maybe not.

Then, perhaps even more interesting is the cat that may have been let out of the bag by Nebraska President Ted Carter on local radio station KETZ this morning. Apparently, according to the Omaha World-Herald (subscription may be required), Carter, not realizing his mic was on, said — and I quote, “We’re getting ready to announce the Huskers and Big Ten football tonight.”

Interesting no? All the disclaimers that you could think of apply here, but stay close to your mobile devices, Twitter, or however you get your sports news and we’ll let you know just as soon as we hear anything.

If anything at all.

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Report: Ohio State and Nebraska football communicating behind scenes on Big Ten postponement

According to Husker Online’s Sean Callahan, Ohio State and Nebraska have been communicating behind the scenes on pushing for fall football.

There’s been no program more vocal about the Big Ten’s decision to postpone the fall football season more than the Nebraska Cornhuskers. Head coach Scott Frost came out immediately with a dissenting message that the program was aligned in looking for somewhere to play — even if it meant doing so outside the conference.

When it comes to Ohio State, though head coach Ryan Day and athletic director Gene Smith weren’t quite as vocal upfront, there wasn’t exactly a ringing endorsement for Commissioner Kevin Warren and the voting of the university presidents.

But what was going on behind the scenes? According to one Nebraska beat-writer, he says that there’s been a bond formed between the Husker and Buckeye brass. So much so that it appears Ohio State administrators were very interested in what was going on in Lincoln.

Husker Online’s Sean Callahan appeared on the Bishop and Laurinaitis Show Thursday on the ESPN affiliate 97.1 The Fan in Columbus. He said the two schools have been communicating through the whole process, most notably about the lawsuit eight Nebraska players brought against the league.

“As far as the lawsuit goes, I can tell you Ohio State had high-level officials talking to Nebraska about it behind the scenes and a lot of interest,” said Callahan. “I don’t know if they entertained doing something similar in … Ohio State and Nebraska kept fighting in this fight to get to where we’re at possibly with a re-vote on Friday.”

You can listen to the entire exchange and interview at about the 103-minute mark below.

Interesting no? It’s been clear through this shock and awe the Big Ten unleashed on everyone that Ohio State has tried to play the balancing act. It has been pushing to play and fighting for its players, while also not pouring kerosene on the bridge to the Big Ten offices in Chicagoland and wielding a blow torch in the direction of Warren.

But make no mistake. Ohio State wants to play, and it has continued to press along in a stern and discerning way.

No matter how you look at it, here we are. There continues to be some optimism in places like Columbus, Lincoln, and other locales in the conference. Optimism that there might be a reversal to some extent of waiting the virus out until spring in the Big Ten, and it looks like Buckeyes and Corn might end up making a pretty good casserole no matter how it turns out.

Who knew?

 

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Big Ten ordered to provide discovery on vote to postpone season in expedited manner

On Wednesday, the Big Ten was ordered by a Lancaster County Nebraska judge to provide documents detailing the fall football postponement.

And the drama surrounding the Big Ten’s decision to postpone the fall football season marches on.

On Wednesday, Mike Flood, the lead attorney for the eight Nebraska players that filed a lawsuit against the Big Ten’s decision-making process to suspend the season, announced a win for his clients. Included in the statement is the revelation that Lancaster County District Court judge Susan Strong has “ordered the Big Ten conference to produce more information and documents regarding the ‘vote,’ as well as the governing documents related to the decision-making process.”

This appears to be a big setback for the Big Ten. It filed its own brief late last week asking that the lawsuit be dismissed, but at the least, it looks like the conference will have to produce proof of its assertions made in the brief — notably the 11-3 vote and details surrounding medical advice it used to come to a determination to shelve the season.

Many thought that the creative nature of the lawsuit against the Big Ten would run up against an issue because it is unprecedented in its scope and use of some of the legal avenues that can be taken, but that does not appear to be the case.

And that’s not all. Because of the sensitive and time-driven nature of the request, the Big Ten has been given until September 12 to produce all documents surrounding whether an official vote was taken on the decision, as well as the final tally. It does not have to provide specifics on what schools voted which way.

The Big Ten also has to submit its entire bylaws. What was originally provided had the majority of the 13 pages redacted.

So start the clock. It’s just ten days and counting before we get an answer one way or another on what vote — if any — were taken, and what type of medical advice and studies were used to make such an earth-shattering decision.

Basically, folks are finally going to see what should have likely been provided all along.

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Big Ten mulls options, including Thanksgiving kickoff

The Big Ten is mulling options about when to start its college football season.

The college football merry-go-round amid the coronavirus pandemic picks up speed every day it seems. Now, comes a report the Big Ten, which postponed fall football, is considering different start dates for a season, including as soon as Thanksgiving weekend.

Per the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel:

According to two college football people familiar with the Big Ten, those talks have generated a new option, starting a Big Ten season of at least eight games the week of Thanksgiving. They spoke on the condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the matter.

The Journal Sentinel reported earlier this month that league officials were working on a plan to play an eight-game season beginning in January, with the games to be played in indoor facilities.

Yahoo’s Pete Thamel weighs in with this: