{"id":143969,"date":"2026-01-30T10:58:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-30T10:58:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/143969\/"},"modified":"2026-01-30T10:58:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-30T10:58:07","slug":"ohio-state-vs-texas-football-betting-lines-spread-for-nonconference-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/143969\/","title":{"rendered":"Ohio State vs. Texas football: Betting lines, spread for nonconference game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"AGOVFHN3ABHCZK6ZDYXPNTO7QQ\">COLUMBUS, Ohio \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cleveland.com\/osu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.cleveland.com\/osu\/\">Ohio State<\/a> football will play a premier nonconference game at Texas on Sept. 12, and early signs point to the Buckeyes entering Darrell K Royal-Texas Memorial Stadium as underdogs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"NAGHXWSMX5B5NF6U6DZ5NBGIDY\">Texas is a 2.5-point favorite, according to a recent betting line provided by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cleveland.com\/betting\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.cleveland.com\/betting\/\">FanDuel<\/a>. The point total is set at 47.5 \u2014 well over the 21 points scored when the teams met in Columbus last year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"HF4JLBED55HV3IDSRRLQ74UAPM\">Ohio State and Texas have met on the gridiron five times, with the first matchup coming in 2005. <\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"N2HAZGTUFRGWTCXDWGLFKWSDCY\">The Buckeyes have won the last two meetings, giving them a 3-2 edge in series history.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"TAAZFFBSCBGQ3IM62W3QYOJVFI\">OSU ended Texas\u2019 2024-25 season with a win in the College Football Playoff semifinals at the Cotton Bowl. The Buckeyes went on to win the national championship 10 days later.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"F3CTWKZRZVDLNJBMVAQ32MJLRM\">The teams then opened the 2025 season against each other, marking the first matchup in a home-and-home agreement.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"STWTSYB2JBFDHFIHQDIUHR5MLY\">Ohio State, in quarterback <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cleveland.com\/osu\/2026\/01\/ohio-states-big-ten-schedule-is-placing-a-heisman-trophy-spotlight-on-its-most-important-player-stephen-means.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.cleveland.com\/osu\/2026\/01\/ohio-states-big-ten-schedule-is-placing-a-heisman-trophy-spotlight-on-its-most-important-player-stephen-means.html\">Julian Sayin\u2019s<\/a> first start, won 14-7 against Texas. Quarterback <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cleveland.com\/osu\/2025\/12\/arch-manning-made-a-decision-about-his-future-that-impacts-ohio-state-footballs-julian-sayin.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.cleveland.com\/osu\/2025\/12\/arch-manning-made-a-decision-about-his-future-that-impacts-ohio-state-footballs-julian-sayin.html\">Arch Manning<\/a> will look to get his revenge in this year\u2019s return game.<\/p>\n<p>Big weekend looms for Ohio State basketball<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"7I5L2W2NM5DERDKXYFFGXMTMLM\">Both Ohio State basketball teams have a big weekend ahead as the calendar turns to February.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"V5SIR53WDZATZDPZWACW4WMVW4\">The men\u2019s team, coming off a win Monday against Penn State, plays at Wisconsin on Saturday. A victory would give OSU a much-needed Quadrant 1 win as it looks to improve its March Madness resume.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"RVMYL3DPJVGAPL76P2R5GOPVZY\">The 11th-ranked women\u2019s team will look to maintain momentum as winners of eight of their last nine. Ohio State hosts Nebraska on Sunday. <\/p>\n<p>Key dates2026 NFL Scouting Combine:\u00a024 days, Feb. 23- March 2, 20262026 NFL Draft:\u00a083 days, April 23-25, 2026Ohio State vs. Ball State (Season Opener):\u00a0221 days, Sept. 5, 2026The Game 2026:\u00a0302 days, Nov. 28, 2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"COLUMBUS, Ohio \u2014 Ohio State football will play a premier nonconference game at Texas on Sept. 12, and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":143970,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[48403,27,29,28],"class_list":["post-143969","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-ohio-stadium","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143969","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=143969"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143969\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/143970"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=143969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=143969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}