Nebraska, Penn State and Indiana games all scheduled for primetime starts
COLUMBUS, Ohio – The Big Ten Conference’s primetime football games selection process is complete and the Ohio State Buckeyes will appear on an evening telecast three times in 2012:
October 6 – Ohio State will host Nebraska at 8 p.m. in a game that will be televised on 
ABC, ESPN or ESPN2. The game will be Ohio State’s Homecoming and it will be the Cornhusker’s first visit to Ohio Stadium since playing games in consecutive years at Ohio Stadium in 1955 and 1956.
October 13 – Ohio State’s road game at Indiana in Memorial Stadium will be an 8 p.m. contest on the Big Ten Network.
October 27 – Ohio State’s first game against Penn State in State College since the 2009 season will be a 6 p.m. start – correct; 6 p.m. – with either ABC, ESPN or ESPN2 broadcasting the game.
Television assignments for the first three weeks of the Big Ten season (September 1, September 8 and September 15) will be selected no later than July 1, but the conference office expects to have television information for these first three weekends’ games well before the July 1 deadline.
Ohio State is 34-18 all-time in night games (those starting after 5 p.m. local time) with a 7-3 record in Ohio Stadium, an 18-8 mark on the road and a 9-7 record at neutral sites.
Ohio Stadium Night Games
1. Sept. 14, 1985 Ohio State 10, Pittsburgh 7
2. Sept. 11, 1993 Ohio State 21, Washington 12
3. Aug. 28, 1997 Ohio State 24, Wyoming 10
4. Sept. 11, 1999 Ohio State 42, UCLA 20
5. Oct. 6, 2001 Ohio State 38, Northwestern 20
6. Aug. 30, 2003 Ohio State 28, Washington 9
7. Sept. 10, 2005 Texas 25, Ohio State 22
8. Oct. 25, 2008 Penn State 13, Ohio State 10
9. Sept. 12, 2009 USC 18, Ohio State 15
10. Oct. 29, 2011 Ohio State 33, Wisconsin 29\
2012 Ohio State Schedule
Sept. 1 – Miami (Ohio)
Sept. 8 – Central Florida
Sept. 15 – California
Sept. 22 – Alabama-Birmingham
Sept. 29 –at Michigan State
Oct. 6 – Nebraska (8 p.m. on ABC, ESPN or ESPN2)
Oct. 13 – at Indiana (8 p.m. on the Big Ten Network)
Oct. 20 – Purdue
Oct. 27 – at Penn State (6 p.m. on ABC, ESPN or ESPN2)
Nov. 3 – Illinois
Nov. 10 – Open
Nov. 17 – at Wisconsin
Nov. 24 – Michigan
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