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Future Football Schedules (Updated 11/21/2023)

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Over the last three seasons, the Scarlet and Gray have exactly two losses in Big Ten play. Both of these defeats came in major upset fashion and each left the Buckeyes with major amounts of egg on their face.

In 2017, fresh off a double-digit comeback win against Penn State, Ohio State fell 55-24 at 5-3 Iowa. The next season, an undefeated Buckeye team went to West Layfayette and lost 49-20 to a Purdue team that finished the year 6-7. Both of these defeats saw talented Scarlet and Gray teams fail to make the College Football Playoff despite winning the Big Ten.

The Buckeyes will have a chance to make amends, in some respects, for those two losses in 2020.

Ohio State was originally scheduled to play Iowa for the first time since 2017 in Columbus on Oct. 10. That game remains on the new schedule but was moved to the final week of the season, Nov. 21. But the schedule makers, intentionally or not, gave the Buckeyes another rematch to make up for nightmares past when adding a trip to Purdue as the Scarlet and Gray's 10th conference game in this strange year on Sept. 19.

While facing the Hawkeyes and the Boilermakers again could serve as some revenge for fans -- following my tweet pointing out Ohio State plays the last two Big Ten teams it lost to, one of my followers quickly responded that the Buckeyes "better hang 100" on these two opponents -- don't expect that narrative to be pushed by those who will actually take part in the game.
 
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gmen6981 said:
I thought I read on their board they aren't going to have anybody at all at games.
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Much earlier, Smith indicated OSU needed 60,000 in seats to break even. Considering the costs of opening up, closing, cleaning the facilities, security, it might be cheaper to go without any fans than with the 20k listed as “safe.”

hope they do anything as stupid as what I saw at Iowa State and Florida State this past weekend.
 
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DUCKS ON HOLD. There wasn't much working in favor of Ohio State's trip to Oregon this year. If The Very Bad Virus didn't kill the game, the wildfires producing the worst air quality in the entire world the day of the game almost certainly would have.

But the good news is, it seems both parties are committed to the Buckeyes making the trip to Duckland someday, it just might have to wait a while.

“The Ohio State’s the more difficult one because we’re scheduled to go to Columbus next year and that’s a game we’ve all been excited to play,” Oregon athletic director Rob Mullens said on The James Crepea Show on KORE 1050/95.7 Fox Sports Eugene on Friday. “The challenge is if we’re going to do that, when we can find an opportunity within reason for Ohio State to get back to Autzen? Those are ongoing conversations; we’ll continue to explore that.

“Football scheduling is so far out and hard to pivot, but the impact of this year and what’s going to do on next year will be interesting. We don’t have any of those solved yet but they’re all games that we want to make happen.”

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Asked if it’s viable to reschedule the game for 2022, when Oregon is already scheduled to play Georgia in Atlanta and Ohio State will host Notre Dame and would require each to break or reschedule another nonconference game contract, Mullens didn’t see that as plausible.

“I don’t think that’s a possibility because we don’t want to be breaking nonconference contracts with folks,” he said. “I don’t think that’s a possibility. We would look a little further out into the future if we’re talking in realistic options.”

From my extremely surface-level analysis of Ohio State's future schedules, it appears the Buckeyes are next free in 2024. They could probably make 2025 work as well because I'm not all confident that UConn will even have a football program by then.
 
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Any discussions with any of the service academies about any future games? I know Army came out there in 2016, and Navy a few years before that. I know Army & Oklahoma are trying to reschedule Oklahoma's trip to West Point that got postponed from 2020. Being that Army's the only independent, it may be easier to schedule them (Note- Army is playing Wisconsin this season).

Due to the Commander in Chief trophy games- two of their non league games are locked in.

Air Force-
2021- Army (Arlington, TX), @ Navy, Lafayette, Florida Atlantic
2022- Army (Arlington, TX), Navy, Colorado, Northern Iowa
2023- Army, @ Navy, Robert Morris, @ Wake Forest

Navy-
2021- Marshall, Air Force, @ Notre Dame, Army (Giants Stadium)
2022- Delaware, @ Air Force, Notre Dame (TBD), Army (Philadelphia)
2023- @ Marshall, Air Force, @ Notre Dame, Army (TBD)
2024- Bucknell, @ Air Force, Notre Dame (TBD), Army (TBD)

I know Army's been scheduling at least 1 high profile game each year- Wisconsin this year, Tennessee next year, and LSU in 2023. Syracuse is on their schedules from 2023-2026, for the first time since McNabb was there.
 
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