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Oregon at tOSU, Sep 11th, Noon ET on Fox

Does anyone know if there are intentions on fulfilling the trip to Autzen or is that dead in the water?
Still got a lot of friends in Oregon who would love to see it happen.

The last I've heard was this:

You can click here to read along at home if you’re interested: http://theozone.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/Oregon-Game-Contract-2020-2021.pdf

Under the existing agreement, if this year’s game is canceled, it would not impact the teams’ 2021 date in Columbus. The programs would also not be under any legal obligation to reschedule the Eugene half of the home-and-home, but could if both sides agreed to do so.

Entire article: http://theozone.net/2020/05/what-happens-if-ohio-state-cant-play-at-oregon/

Oregon working to reschedule canceled 2020 meeting with Ohio State, but ‘it’s complicated’

Both Mullens and Ohio State athletic director Gene Smith have indicated they’d like to reschedule the game that was supposed to be played on Sept. 12 in Eugene for as soon as possible, but both schools have nonconference schedules fully set for at least the next three years and several prominent Power 5 games scheduled in subsequent even-numbered years, when it’s easier for Ohio State to travel for a road nonconference game and Oregon most needs a nonconference home game.

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.”

Further out than that would first leave 2024, when Ohio State is already scheduled to play at Washington and multiple nonconference road games, against teams from the same conference and region no less, would be impractical and untenable to the Buckeyes and require the Ducks to again break a different game contract. After that comes 2028, when Oregon hosts Baylor and travels to Utah State but has one opening and Ohio State is to play at Alabama and 2030 has Oregon hosting Michigan State and Ohio State visiting Georgia.

The first completely open even-numbered year for both teams isn’t until 2032, at which point the thought of rescheduling the 2020 game is more one-off than reflective of the original series.

Entire article: https://www.oregonlive.com/ducks/20...ting-with-ohio-state-but-its-complicated.html
 
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"I hope to, by the third week in March at the latest, we'll have that nailed down," Smith responded when asked if he had figured out what they will do with the Oregon series. "Both of us want to compete, want to play. Big picture kind of goes to where we were talking just now. Neither of us wants to change the game. It would cost us more to change the game. If we don’t play, we gotta buy somebody else in. And so you’re paying whatever we’ll have to pay and that game probably won’t be as attractive as us playing each other. So our biggest challenge is the return game. So we’re working through that right now and we will play this fall. It's just we gotta work through some details on it."

The major question that needs to be answered is where the game will be played. As of now, it is scheduled to take place at Ohio Stadium on Saturday, Sept. 11. The game could remain as scheduled, although that could create a financial issue given last year's game at Autzen Stadium was not played. Based on the original contracts between the two teams, the home university was set to pay the other $300,000 for their visit. Ohio State could have to pay a larger sum if a return game to Oregon cannot be rescheduled.
 
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It's too early to say whether games will be back to normal. Stadium capacities will depend on COVID-19 case numbers in various locales, and there's no way to project that months in advance. Coaches with big early-season matchups at home will hope for the best, and that includes Ohio State.

The Buckeyes host Oregon on Sept. 11, and coach Ryan Day said Saturday after the spring game that he hopes Ohio State will have the Horseshoe rocking with over 100,000 fans against the Ducks.

“It felt almost normal in there today," Day said, via Dan Hope of Eleven Warriors. "I'm just hoping that that thing's full when we come back against Oregon here.”
 
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These are the picks for TV games of interest for 9/11/21:

Sept. 11: Pitt at Tennessee
Sept. 11: Oregon at Ohio State
Sept. 11: Texas at Arkansas
Sept. 11: Washington at Michigan

I'm getting a feeling that this game is going to be an 8 PM start with Michigan in the 3 PM slot. An 8 PM start would seem to help Oregon in terms of jet lag. 20th anniversary of 9/11.
 
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“... Talking to someone I trust out there, Anthony Brown is the guy right now at quarterback. I don’t expect that to change. Jay Butterfield, probably the No. 2 right now. I would agree with that. Don’t expect that to change. But I think there’s such a wild variance right now in the quarterback room with Ty Thompson, what he could be."

Brown did not play much last season but posted a productive three-year career at Boston College from 2017 to 2019 and brings dual-threat ability to the position. Thompson, meanwhile, was one of the top quarterbacks in the 2021 class and got an early start on his college career by enrolling early.
 
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Oregon at 12 noon. 9am West Coast. How you gonna to sell a game at 9 fucking AM in one of your prime recruiting areas? You don't see Notre Dame playing USC or Stanford at 9 fucking am.

And look at the other potential games:
Sept. 11: Pitt at Tennessee
Sept. 11: Oregon at Ohio State
Sept. 11: Texas at Arkansas
Sept. 11: Washington at Michigan

This is a big ass national interest game and we let Fox see it at nobody's prime time.

The Big needs to grow a pair - you can play Football at night in November. You can play football in the midwest in January, And you don't sell your top out of conference games at 9 fucking am.
 
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I loved 9 am games when I lived in Cali

Go to the watch party at the sports pub
Bacon Beer Buckeyes

what’s not to like?

As for those who would argue that the Buckeyes need the exposure, I’d have to disagree

The Buckeyes have been left out because they lost late to MSU or got blown out by Iowa or Purdue. Not because they weren’t on tv at the right times.

Sure, other teams have gotten in under similar circumstances, but other teams have been left out under circumstances that had the Buckeyes in (the cfp).

To me, it’s al down to when I want to see the Buckeyes play. If the Buckeyes are on late, I have to fetch my own beer by the end of the game because my wife has already gone to bed before the 4th qtr starts. Give me a nooner any day. Any kind of nooner.
 
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While I'd prefer it to be a 3pm game EST, I've watched Buckeyes and Browns games in the Bay Area before and enjoyed the morning setting.

Breakfast buffet, bloody mary, maybe a mimosa or six. If you're a fan, you'll be tuned in damn near no matter what. So as a great man once said - "govern yourselves accordingly".
 
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Oregon at 12 noon. 9am West Coast. How you gonna to sell a game at 9 fucking AM in one of your prime recruiting areas? You don't see Notre Dame playing USC or Stanford at 9 fucking am.

And look at the other potential games:
Sept. 11: Pitt at Tennessee
Sept. 11: Oregon at Ohio State
Sept. 11: Texas at Arkansas
Sept. 11: Washington at Michigan

This is a big ass national interest game and we let Fox see it at nobody's prime time.

The Big needs to grow a pair - you can play Football at night in November. You can play football in the midwest in January, And you don't sell your top out of conference games at 9 fucking am.

I can bet that OSU-Oregon gets the highest ratings too...
The OSU brand is massive, and time doesn't really matter. And I believe that the Fox noon game is their big time slot.
 
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