Ohio State Buckeyes announce Future Scheduling Changes

The Ohio State Buckeyes have made several changes to their future football schedules, Director of Athletics Gene Smith announced today.

Ohio State has added a game against the Florida A&M Rattlers at Ohio Stadium on Sept. 7, 2013. The game will be the first ever between the two schools.

The Buckeyes will begin a home-and-home series with the North Carolina Tar Heels on Sept. 5, 2015 at Ohio Stadium. Ohio State will then travel to face UNC in Chapel Hill on Sept. 23, 2017.

Ohio State is 3-1 all-time against North Carolina. The two schools last met in 1975 in Columbus. The Buckeye won that game 32-7.

Gene Smith also announced today that due to the Big Ten’s decision to play a nine-game conference schedule beginning in 2017, the Buckeyes have canceled a 2018-19 home-and-home series with the Tennessee Volunteers.

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  • come on i will be in college in 18,19,20,21 and i will miss a great oppurtunity to play the Tennessee Volentuers.

    • That afghan guy must be a real tool. Come on, man. By the dates listed, this doug kid is in 6th grade. Who gets on here and knowingly talks smack with a 6th grader?

    • that means youre the exact same age as me, this sucks cause i wanna play the buckeyes and kick their @55 as a volunteer

  • Why is Ohio State always afraid of playing SEC teams, for that matter,
    until the Big 10 is willing to step up and play top teams outside the conference they will not get any respect across the country( Michigan playing a mediocre Notre Dame team does not count)

    • The Big Ten plays the SEC every year on the road, they are called Bowl games. Every year SEC plays Big Ten teams at home, they too are called Bowl games...

    • Oh brother. Everyone on planet earth is " afraid of the SEC " . Enjoy the run and quit talking smack.

    • Anytime, anyplace. Alabama's non-conference: Kent State, Penn State, North Texas and Georgia Southern. That is a tough schedule, got me shakin in my boots.

    • Robert,

      I guess you have missed the home and home series with Texas (NC year), USC (same), Miami, Future meetings with Cal, Oklahoma, etc. Beat Kentucky before you start talking smack...... That is all!

    • midlomonarch, Hello!!! Alabama is allowed to schedule those cupcakes, They have 8 games against the SEC already. THAT would have anyone shaking in their boots.

    • Ohio State does play teams outside the conference, such as 2009 they played USC and lost 18 to 15, they beat Oregon that same year in the Rose Bowl 26 to 17. In 2010 the Buckeyes defeated University of Miami 36 to 24. In 2012 the Buckeyes defeated California 35 to 28, Nebraska 63 to 38 and went on to be undefeated, but ineligible to be in a bowl. They would like nothing better than to take on an SEC team be it the Tide, Vols, Bulldogs or Gators. Scheduling cannot take place a lot of times because of the strong Big 10 schedule they have to play.

    • Buckeyes are schedule to play Oklahoma in either 2015 or 2016 and VT 2014 and 2015. Did you ever consider that the lowly SEC just doesn't want to play the great Big Ten??!!!

  • Com' on you guys are dopes. This is a money grab as usual. Keep home games and drop away games. It's about the cashshshs! In other words drop the non-Confrence games you have to give a return trip!

    • I can't believe Ohio State is doing this! The new uifonrm looks stupid. Stay with silver helmets, gray pants, and the regular Ohio State jersey. Could you see Penn State or Michigan doing this??

  • The fans want SEC games, why Smith changes things I'll never know, it's crazy. The rest of the Big ten needs to be like penn state not afraid of scheduling SEC teams like Alabama.

  • I think it's BS that we dropped Tennessee...it makes us look scared...it's a BS excuse that we are doing it b/c of going to a 9 game conference schedule...you can still do 1 home & home ooc big game...the years that you play 5 home confernce game and 4 road, you play 2 home ooc games and 1 road (still get 7 home games)...then when you play 4 home conference and 5 road conference games, you play 3 home OOC games and 0 road ones...(still 7 home games)...you don't need more than that.

  • well umm.... considering UT smoked Ohio State the only time theyve played and the only SEC team OSU has ever beatin was Arkansas last year, by golly id love to see ohio state play arkansas this year, so ummm oh yea... GO VOLS AND THE REST OF THE SOUTHEAST!!!

    • 20-14 in the Citrus Bowl is hardly getting smoked by another team. Consdering the Buckeyes won 11 games that year with an average margin of victory of 24 points (including a 3 point win at Happy Valley) and then lose the last 2 games by an average of 7 points per game...I wouldn't call those losses getting smoked.

      41-14 is getting smoked.

    • Smoked?!? What are you smoking, you stupid hillbilly? The final score last time we played was 20-14, in the '96 Florida Citrus Bowl. Your team winning by 6 doesn't exactly equal "smoked".
      Oh, and don't forget that your team forfeited that win. They cheated. They wore illegal cleats.
      And when was the last time your team won a BCS game? It's been a while, eh? And don't go counting victories from other SEC schools. That seems to be the thing to do if your team sucks and plays in the SEC.

    • OSU has beaten the sec on 3 occasions. Don't talk smack. You haven't been relevant since Tee Martin. UT isn't even the best sec school in the state of Tennessee

    • Ohio State had Eddie George that year (can you say "H i - z m o n" - spelled phonically for all those in the Big 10 with its 12 teams - geez - can't even count right yet they call themselves schools of higher learning... maybe if they all grew 2 extra fingers then they could get it right - the fact that they don't call themselves the Big Eleven says they don't have any other convenient appendages that would help them count higher). And poor Eddie got stuffed 4 downs in a row from the 1 yard line. No TD for you! Tennessee's Jay Graham out rushed poor Eddie and his too short cleats.... (cry me a river! boo hop)

      That year, Vandy (12-7) had a closer game with Tennessee than Ohio State. So did Kentucky (34-31).

      Tennessee does just fine with Big 10 opponents. 10 wins v 7 losses (and that is if you count 3 losses to Penn State when they were not in the Big 10 and Nebraska's 2 when they were in the Big 12 - another conference who can't count). Counting only games between then members of the Big Ten, Tennessee is 10-2. I'll take that.

      Only Iowa and Purdue have any true Big Ten pride when it comes to playing Tennessee. (4 most recent with scores)

      TN 1 - Ohio State 0 (1996 => 20-14)
      TN 1 - Michigan 0 (2002 => 45-17)
      TN 1 - NW 0 (1997 => 48-28)
      TN 2 - Wisconsin 0 (2007 => 21-17)
      TN 1 - Indiana 0
      TN 1 - Minnesota 0

      TN 1 - Iowa 1

      TN 0 - Purdue 1
      TN 2 - PennState 3
      TN 0 - Nebraska 2

      Illinois and Mich State have never played Tennessee

  • LSU is playing Towson St, Idaho, North Texas and Washington non-conference next year. Alabama is playing Western Kentucky, Florida Atlantic, and Western Carolina non-conference next year. When you SEC guys play real teams in nonconference maybe we'll take complaints from you seriously. And Tennessee, come on, you guys suck the last few years, no one is scared to play you right now.

    • tennessee is playing oregon, floridas playing miami, ohio state chickened away from vanderbilt and tennessee, georgias playing clemson, and bamas playing viginia tech, plus lsu-tcu. those are no bullcrap teams

    • YANKEE BUCKEYES FANS PISS ME OFF, YOURE NEVER GONNA WIN ANOTHER NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP AGAIN, THE SEC WILL WIN THE NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP EVERY YEAR FROM NOW ON AS LONG AS TIME STANDS! ALABAMA, ARKANSAS, AUBURN, FLORIDA, GEORGIA, KENTUCKY, LSU, MISSISSIPI STATE, MISSOURI, OLE MISS, SOUTH CAROLINA, TENNESSEE, TEXAS A&M, VANDERBILT. THESE ARE THE NAMES YOU WILL HEAR EVERY YEAR WHEN YOU HEAR BCS NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP WINNER! OHIO STATE WILL NOT WIN SO GO CRY IN YOUR HORSESHOE YA FREAKIN OHIO STATE YANKEYES!

  • OSU should not be afraid of playing SEC Teams. Based on data they fully know the outcome before they play them.

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