Ohio State is set to take on Michigan State under the lights at the Shoe on Nov. 11, but it may be the last time the Buckeyes host a night game that late in the year for the foreseeable future.
The Buckeye football program, and several others around the Big Ten, have long preferred not to kick off contests in a primetime slot during the late stages of the regular season, which made last month’s announcement of the 7:30 p.m. mid-November tilt on NBC all the more peculiar. But given the Big Ten’s new TV rights deal with CBS, FOX and NBC, it appeared a concession was made.