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Future Football Schedules (Updated 8/31/2024)

Dispatch:

OSU takes Washington State, Syracuse off schedule
Saturday, February 18, 2006
Ken Gordon
THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH

Ohio State has three more holes in its football schedules after backing out of a game at Washington State and canceling a home-and-home series with Syracuse.

The Buckeyes were scheduled to travel to Washington in 2009 for a game either in Pullman or Seattle (the site never was finalized). That completed a home-and-home that began with the Cougars’ trip to Columbus in 2002.

But OSU decided to try and get another home game, instead.

The Buckeyes agreed to pay WSU $450,000 for backing out, said Cougars athletics director Jim Sterk. But OSU likely will make a several-million-dollar profit by turning that into a home game.

"It was strictly for economic reasons," said OSU associate athletics director Steve Snapp, who has taken over some of the football-scheduling duties.

Sterk said he was disappointed but not shocked.

"I thought at some point they might want to (cancel)," he said. "We had a healthy-sized penalty for them to get out. I thought it would make them hesitate. But I guess not."

Washington State plays home games in Martin Stadium, which is being expanded and will seat 42,000 by 2009. The other option was playing in Seattle’s Qwest Field, which seats 67,000.

Canceling the Syracuse series will not cost OSU, Snapp said. The Orangemen were to play in Columbus to open the 2007 season and the Buckeyes were headed to Syracuse in 2010.

OSU has two open dates in 2007.

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I'm still disappointed but it makes sense

Why travel a long distance for a likely win but a small payout, when you could stay home thump some team and make a killing? It does make me wonder how Oregon convinced Michigan and Oklahoma to actually travel to Eugene for a game. After all Autzen Stadium only seats 50 or 52,000 and there is no pro-football stadium in the state of Oregon that you could move it to for a larger venue. Phil Knight must have considerably sweetened the pot.
 
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Why travel a long distance for a likely win but a small payout, when you could stay home thump some team and make a killing? It does make me wonder how Oregon convinced Michigan and Oklahoma to actually travel to Eugene for a game. After all Autzen Stadium only seats 50 or 52,000 and there is no pro-football stadium in the state of Oregon that you could move it to for a larger venue. Phil Knight must have considerably sweetened the pot.

Autzen actually seats 56 k and their record crowd came last year against USC when they had 58,000+. Still on the small side but much bigger than Wazzu's.
 
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Why travel a long distance for a likely win but a small payout, when you could stay home thump some team and make a killing? It does make me wonder how Oregon convinced Michigan and Oklahoma to actually travel to Eugene for a game. After all Autzen Stadium only seats 50 or 52,000 and there is no pro-football stadium in the state of Oregon that you could move it to for a larger venue. Phil Knight must have considerably sweetened the pot.

I agree. No way that game makes sense for the big schools unless they made the buyout too painful when the deal was reached originally or there was indeed a pot sweetner.

Also I'm not sure how many sports OU's football team has to carry for them or what their AD's financial situation is.

OSU's in a spot where they must maximize the $$ on every single game played to support the non revenue teams and pay down some massive debt.
 
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would game even of been in pullman?

Well shit!!! I've been looking forward to that matchup eversince that '02 game in Columbus. No point in speculating why the Buckeyes backed out...it's just damn disappointing! I would have liked to have the Cougs finally play the Bucks outside of the Shoe. Oh well, I see WSU has gotten some other Big 10 teams to play them (perhaps more winnable games for WSU), that is some consolation.
when I first saw the game scheduled for WSU, I was really excited that our Bucks might be playing two games out here in the near future with the upcoming game against UW also being listed. I dont know about you TSKCoug, but I almost automatically assumed the WSU game would probably be played in Seattle due to their propensity of late to play one game over there each year. Even though as far as I know OSU has never lost to WSU (having played all the games at the SHOE) I think the Cougs could actually have a fair chance to put a scare into our team if they had to play in Pullman on a cold cold night as the game would most certainly be played in the evening for TV' sake. Oh well, guess I had better start looking for tickets for the UW game
 
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I agree. No way that game makes sense for the big schools unless they made the buyout too painful when the deal was reached originally or there was indeed a pot sweetner.

Also I'm not sure how many sports OU's football team has to carry for them or what their AD's financial situation is.

OSU's in a spot where they must maximize the $$ on every single game played to support the non revenue teams and pay down some massive debt.

Oregon has the best booster in college sports in Phil Knight so they're fine financially.
 
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nwbuckeye,

I think that Jaxbuck has likely hit on the answer. No amount of gate incentive would have kept tOSU to the contracted game with WSU. If the Buckeye athletic department is carrying a huge debt service that would be powerfull incentive to kill the game in favor of another home game. The huge home gate revenue is what killed the proposed home and home deal with Auburn last year. In that case, as in this one, "home" on this end would likely have been Qwest Field. If the Buckeyes had just objected to Martin Stadium in Pullman as a venue, Qwest Field is a more than feasible alternative. In in fact I think that with the NFC Championship Game the Seahawks pushed attendance to somewhere near 70,000 (with SRO tickets). I have heard rumors that Paul Allen, in past years, already has been cutting WSU a good deal on rent of the facility for that one day a year. He may have been pursuadable to greatly sweeten the pot for tOSU, had the Bucks wanted to keep the date. After all he is the 6th or 7th richest man in the USA. A WSU/tOSU match up would have undoubtedly been a bigger draw than whoever the Mutts would be playing at Montlake (if they had a game the same day).
Perhaps WSU needs to propose a 2 for 1 deal to tOSU, with a larger penalty clause for withdrawal from the Seattle game but sweeteners if they hold to the deal.
 
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Dispatch

4/7/06

Friday, April 07, 2006
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You can remove the two Syracuse games, and add Oklahoma:

OSU, Oklahoma setting up football series

4:45 p.m.

CHICAGO — Oklahoma and Ohio State have all but finalized a two-game football series to be played in 2016 and 2017. That arrangement would continue the Buckeye plan of having a “national power” nonconference game each season.

USC, Miami and Virginia Tech are among the teams on future schedules before the Oklahoma series will kick in.
 
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