{"id":639612,"date":"2026-05-13T01:04:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T01:04:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/639612\/"},"modified":"2026-05-13T01:04:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T01:04:11","slug":"ohio-states-road-game-at-texas-officially-set-for-730-p-m-kickoff-on-abc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/639612\/","title":{"rendered":"Ohio State\u2019s Road Game at Texas Officially Set for 7:30 P.m. Kickoff on ABC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n                   Ohio State didn\u2019t get a home night game against Texas, but Texas will get a home night game against Ohio State.                <\/p>\n<p>\n\tAs part of Disney\u2019s\u00a0upfront presentation to advertisers on Tuesday, ABC announced that it will broadcast the Week 2 game in Austin, Texas, between Ohio State and Texas at 7:30 p.m. on Sept. 12.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tESPN also announced that College GameDay will be in Austin for the game.\n<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\" xml:lang=\"en\">\n\t\tTHE FIRST TWO SHOWS OF THE 2026 CFB SEASON ARE SET<\/p>\n<p>Week 1: Baton Rouge<br \/>Week 2: Austin <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/wDF9dLE1Vr\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/wDF9dLE1Vr<\/a>\n\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\u2014 College GameDay (@CollegeGameDay) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CollegeGameDay\/status\/2054311251992342932?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">May 12, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n\tThe game between the Buckeyes and Longhorns comes as the second leg of a home-and-home series between Ohio State and Texas that began last year with a Week 1 game in Columbus. Ohio State attempted to have that game moved to Sunday night so that it could play in primetime after the broadcast rights to the game were claimed by FOX, but Texas <a href=\"https:\/\/www.elevenwarriors.com\/ohio-state-football\/2025\/05\/156272\/texas-reportedly-blocked-ohio-states-attempt-to-move-the-buckeyes-premier-week-1-matchup-to-primetime-on-sunday-aug\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">exercised its right to decline the date change<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tBecause Texas is hosting the game, ABC and ESPN have the broadcast rights to this year\u2019s game as part of their television contract with the SEC.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tIt\u2019s the first time Ohio State will play a regular-season game on ABC since 2022 \u2013 the final year ABC and ESPN were part of the Big Ten\u2019s television \u2013 when the Buckeyes played five regular-season games on ABC, concluding with a 43-30 win over Maryland on Nov. 19.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tOhio State will be looking for its third straight win against Texas after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.elevenwarriors.com\/ohio-state-football\/2025\/08\/157576\/dominant-defense-leads-ohio-state-to-14-7-victory-over-no-1-texas\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">defeating the Longhorns 14-7<\/a> in last year\u2019s game at the Shoe, which came after an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.elevenwarriors.com\/ohio-state-football\/2024-25-college-football-playoff\/2025\/01\/152652\/ohio-state-wins-fourth-quarter-to-defeat-texas-in-college-football-playoff\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">iconic 28-14 win over Texas<\/a> in the CFP semifinal at the Cotton Bowl during the Buckeyes\u2019 2024 national championship run.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tThe 7:30 p.m. start\u00a0is the second kickoff time to be announced for an Ohio State game this season along\u00a0with the Ohio State vs. Michigan game, which will <a href=\"https:\/\/www.elevenwarriors.com\/ohio-state-football\/2026\/05\/162511\/ohio-state-s-rivalry-game-vs-michigan-officially-set-for-noon-kickoff-on-fox-once-again\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">kick off at noon on Nov. 28<\/a> and will be televised by FOX.\n<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ohio State didn\u2019t get a home night game against Texas, but Texas will get a home night game&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":639613,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[399,398,396,397,99],"class_list":["post-639612","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ncaa-football","tag-football","tag-ncaa","tag-ncaa-football","tag-ncaafootball","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/639612","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=639612"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/639612\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/639613"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=639612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=639612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=639612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}