Ohio State Buckeyes Football TV Schedule, Channels, Times
How to watch live stream Ohio State Buckeyes football game today, tonight, or tomorrow? What channel & time?
Four Ohio State games already have confirmed kickoff times and networks for 2026. The season opener against Ball State airs on Big Ten Network, the Week 2 showdown at Texas is an ABC primetime game, the Kent State meeting is a FOX Big Noon Kickoff special, and The Game against Michigan closes the regular season at noon on FOX. Everything else is still awaiting assignment. Under the Big Ten's media agreement, conference games are distributed across FOX, CBS, NBC and Peacock, with select matchups on Big Ten Network, and the league typically confirms times and channels six to twelve days before kickoff. One partial designation is already in: Homecoming against Maryland on October 10 will not be a noon game, having been slotted for either 3:30 PM or 8:00 PM ET.
| Ohio State Buckeyes TV Schedule 2026 | |||
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| Date | Game | Time ET | TV |
| Week 1 (Sat, Sept. 5) | vs Ball State | 12:30 PM | Big Ten Network |
| Week 2 (Sat, Sept. 12) | @ Texas | 7:30 PM | ABC |
| Week 3 (Sat, Sept. 19) | vs Kent State | 12:00 PM | FOX |
| Week 4 (Sat, Sept. 26) | vs Illinois * | TBD | TBA |
| Week 5 (Sat, Oct. 3) | @ Iowa * | TBD | TBA |
| Week 6 (Sat, Oct. 10) | vs Maryland * (Homecoming) | 3:30 PM or 8:00 PM | TBA |
| Week 7 (Sat, Oct. 17) | @ Indiana * | TBD | TBA |
| Week 8 (Sat, Oct. 24) | BYE WEEK | — | — |
| Week 9 (Sat, Oct. 31) | @ USC * | TBD | TBA |
| Week 10 (Sat, Nov. 7) | vs Oregon * | TBD | TBA |
| Week 11 (Sat, Nov. 14) | vs Northwestern * | TBD | TBA |
| Week 12 (Sat, Nov. 21) | @ Nebraska * | TBD | TBA |
| Week 13 (Sat, Nov. 28) | vs Michigan * (The Game) | 12:00 PM | FOX |
* Big Ten game. Home games are played at Ohio Stadium in Columbus, Ohio.
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Which Ohio State Buckeyes games are worth watching in 2026?
September 12 in Austin is the biggest non-conference game in the country. It completes the home-and-home with Texas after Ohio State won a 14-7 defensive slog in Columbus last season, and ABC has already locked it into primetime — a rare early-season meeting between two programs that have spent recent Januarys knocking each other out of the Playoff. Then there is the last Saturday in November, when Michigan comes to Ohio Stadium for The Game at its traditional noon slot on FOX, the fixture that has decided the Big Ten more often than any other.
The conference schedule is unusually top-heavy in November. Oregon visits Columbus on November 7 in a meeting of two programs that have quickly become the Big Ten's clearest heavyweights since the league expanded, and it comes a week after a Halloween trip to Los Angeles to face USC. That West Coast swing is the sort of scheduling quirk the new Big Ten produces, and Ohio State gets a well-placed bye on October 24 to prepare for it. Homecoming on October 10 against Maryland is already guaranteed an afternoon or night window rather than the noon kickoff, so Columbus gets a full day of it.
