\n The Game will officially be a noon game on FOX once again. <\/p>\n
\n\tAs part of its annual upfront presentation to advertisers on Monday,\u00a0FOX announced that it will broadcast Ohio State\u2019s\u00a0annual rivalry game with Michigan on Nov. 28 in its traditional noon time slot.\n<\/p>\n
\n\t\tThe Game returns to FOX.<\/p>\n
Watch as @UMichFootball<\/a> and @OhioStateFB<\/a> go head-to-head on November 28. Who ya got? pic.twitter.com\/6LIpPx1rsG<\/a>\n\t<\/p>\n \t\u2014 FOX College Football (@CFBONFOX) May 11, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n \n\tIt will be FOX\u2019s ninth straight broadcast of The Game dating\u00a0back to 2017. FOX has broadcast the Ohio State vs. Michigan game every year except 2020,\u00a0when The Game was canceled due to a COVID-19 outbreak at Michigan, since becoming the Big Ten\u2019s primary television partner in 2017.\n<\/p>\n \n\tThe Game routinely draws the largest audience of any game in the entire college football regular season, as it did last year, when\u00a018.4 million people\u00a0<\/a>watched the Buckeyes\u2019 27-9 win over the Wolverines.\n<\/p>\n \n\tIn a somewhat more surprising development, the other regular-season game FOX announced it will be airing this year wasn\u2018t Ohio State\u2019s Big Ten Championship Game rematch with Indiana on Oct. 17 or its home game against Oregon on Nov. 7. Instead, FOX announced it will televise Michigan\u2019s home game against Oklahoma on Sept. 12.\n<\/p>\n \n\t\tMark your calendars. @OU_Football<\/a> takes on @UMichFootball<\/a> in Ann Arbor in this star-studded Week 2 matchup. Who ya got? pic.twitter.com\/Ou2vzPsY01<\/a>\n\t<\/p>\n \t\u2014 FOX College Football (@CFBONFOX) May 11, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n \n\tOhio State plays at\u00a0Texas on Sept. 12, but that game will likely air at 7:30 p.m. on ABC, which controls the rights to that game as\u00a0the SEC\u2019s television partner since the Longhorns are the home team.\n<\/p>\n \n\tAssuming FOX used one of its top three picks in this year\u2019s Big Ten TV network draft to secure the rights to Michigan\/Oklahoma, that likely means one of the Ohio State\/Indiana or Ohio State\/Oregon games will air on CBS and NBC. A home night game at the Shoe remains unlikely, however, because\u00a0NBC has already announced it will air Notre Dame\u2019s Nov. 7 game against Miami in its 7:30 p.m. time slot. As such, Ohio State vs. Oregon appears likely to be a 3:30 p.m. game on CBS, as it would be a surprise if FOX passed up the opportunity to air Buckeyes vs. Hoosiers, a matchup of college football\u2019s last two national champions.\n<\/p>\n \n\tOhio State vs. Michigan at noon is the first kickoff time to be officially announced for the Buckeyes\u2019 2026 season. TV networks and kickoff times for the first three weeks of the season are typically announced in May, so those details will likely be set for Ohio State\u2019s non-conference games against Ball State (Sept. 5), Texas (Sept. 12) and Kent State (Sept. 19) later this month.\n<\/p>\n \n\tFOX also made it official on Monday that it will air the Big Ten Championship Game on Dec. 5.\u00a0The 2026 Big Ten Championship Game was originally set to air on NBC, but FOX bought the game back last month, reportedly paying between $45-55 million<\/a> to NBC while also giving NBC the rights to one additional Big Ten game this season.\n<\/p>\n