Aug. 31, 2026, 7:49 p.m. ET<\/p>\n
For Ohio State<\/a> fans travelling to Austin who cannot find tickets<\/a> to the game, a well-known establishment downtown has made it clear that they can come there.<\/p>\n Buford’s Backyard Beer Garden<\/a> has embraced being the locale for many of the Buckeyes<\/a>‘ fans who will be traveling down to Austin for what might be the biggest non-conference matchup of the season between Ohio State and the Texas Longhorns<\/a>.<\/p>\n Both teams are not expected to be challenged in their week one matchups to kick off the season. The Texas Longhorns<\/a> will be squaring off against Texas State<\/a>, while Ohio State welcomes Ball State to Ohio Stadium.<\/p>\n The matchup between the two teams carries many potential College Football Playoff implications despite how early in the season it is being played. Ohio State comes in ranked No. 1<\/a> in the AP Poll while Texas is ranked No. 5, but also has the home-field advantage in the matchup.<\/p>\n Buford’s will also be hosting Buckeyes fans from all over for the first game against Ball State, as it tries to position itself as the go-to place<\/a> for Ohio State fans in the state’s capital.<\/p>\n Need a news break? Check out the all new PLAY hub with puzzles, games and more!<\/a><\/p>\n Contact\/Follow us\u00a0@BuckeyesWire<\/a>\u00a0on X (formerly Twitter) and like our page on\u00a0Facebook\u00a0to follow ongoing coverage of Ohio State news, notes, and opinion.\u00a0<\/p>\n Follow Sunny on X:@<\/a>thesunnyv<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Aug. 31, 2026, 7:49 p.m. ET For Ohio State fans travelling to Austin who cannot find tickets to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":422642,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[33,132,134,133,107004,107005,35,44,6343,45940,3160,3155,45,33965,4447,184,43,46,688,4928,4929,216,36],"class_list":["post-422641","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-austin","tag-accessfree","tag-austin","tag-austin-headlines","tag-austin-news","tag-sourcebuckeyes-wire","tag-sstssportscollegebuckeyesfootball","tag-sstsnfootball","tag-tagamerican-football","tag-tagaustin","tag-tagball-state-university","tag-tagbig-10-hub","tag-tagbig-ten-conference-football","tag-tagcollege-sports","tag-tagohio-state-buckeyes","tag-tagohio-state-buckeyes-football","tag-tagoverall-positive","tag-tagsec-hub","tag-tagsports-news","tag-tagtexas","tag-tagtexas-longhorns","tag-tagtexas-longhorns-football","tag-tx","tag-typestory"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422641","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=422641"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422641\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/422642"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=422641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=422641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=422641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}