Ohio State’s next home date now has a time and a TV home.
The Big Ten announced Monday that the Buckeyes’ Oct. 10 matchup with Maryland will kick off at 4:15 p.m. and air on the Big Ten Network. It comes two weeks after Ohio State returns to the Horseshoe for its annual Homecoming game, and one week after a road trip to face No. 14 Iowa.
The Buckeyes are 2-1 after the non-conference stretch and opened league play with a 42-19 win over Illinois on Saturday in Columbus. That victory followed the Week 2 loss at Texas and gave Ohio State a 1-0 start in Big Ten play.
Maryland enters the game at 2-2 overall and 0-1 in the Big Ten after losing to UCLA on Saturday.
The matchup has been heavily tilted Ohio State’s way. The teams have met only nine times, and the Buckeyes are 8-0 in the series. The first meeting came in 2014, when Ohio State went to College Park and beat Randy Edsall’s team 52-24 after Maryland joined the Big Ten from the ACC.
The following season brought Maryland’s first trip to Columbus, and interim coach Mike Locksley’s team lost 49-28 to Urban Meyer’s Buckeyes. Ohio State then rolled through the next two seasons by a combined 124-17, including a 62-3 win at Maryland Stadium in 2016 and a 62-14 victory in Columbus in 2017.
Maryland’s closest call in the series came in 2018, when it dropped a 52-51 overtime game at home on a failed two-point conversion. In 2019, Ryan Day’s first season as head coach, Ohio State beat Locksley’s returned Maryland team 73-14 at home. The teams were scheduled to play in 2020, but that game was canceled because of COVID-19.
Ohio State handled the Terps again in 2021, winning 66-17 in Columbus as C.J. Stroud and TreVeyon Henderson combined for seven touchdowns.
Maryland put up more resistance in 2023, when Taulia Tagovailoa and the Terrapins pushed Ohio State in College Park before the Buckeyes pulled away for a 43-30 win. The last meeting was also in Columbus, where Ohio State won 37-17.
Here’s the rest of Ohio State’s schedule:
Saturday, Oct. 3 - at Iowa; 3:30 p.m. ET, CBS
Saturday, Oct. 10 - Maryland; 4:15 p.m. ET, BTN
Saturday, Oct. 17 - at Indiana; TBA
OFF WEEK
Saturday, Oct. 31 - at USC; TBA
Saturday, Nov. 7 - Oregon; TBA
Saturday, Nov. 14 - Northwestern; TBA
Saturday, Nov. 21 - at Nebraska; TBA
Saturday, Nov. 28 - Michigan; 12 p.m. ET, FOX
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