The annual Ohio State-Michgian game will likely be moving to FOX as part of the Big Ten’s new contract with the network, according to sources.
It’s one of the great traditions in all of college football. The annual game between two hated rivals, the Michigan Wolverines and Ohio State Buckeyes, is usually what kicks off the post-Thanksgiving football marathon on a Saturday that is full of rivalry showdowns.
For what seems to be decades now, the game as been a Noon kickoff on ABC (with the exception of the epic No. 1 vs. No. 2 match up in 2006 that was moved to 3:30 PM and caused all hell with the old guard). Now, it appears that the game may be heading to a new home.
CBSSports.com went in depth about the Big Ten’s new deal with both FOX and ESPN/ABC for football that kicks in during the 2017 season. According to the article, it looks like the Buckeyes and Wolverines will be heading to the youngest of the four major broadcast networks:
Both networks will have the same amount of games to show (25 football, 50 basketball), but Fox will get first choice of the top games.
