Ohio State will open the 2017 season with back-to-back primetime games.
It was announced Thursday the Buckeyes' season-opener at Indiana on Aug. 31 would be an 8 p.m. kickoff while the Week 2 showdown against Oklahoma in Columbus will begin at 7:30 p.m.
This was hardly a surprise, of course, as Ohio State's opener comes on a Thursday. That Big Ten tilt in Bloomington was always going to be played at night. So, too, was the matchup against the Sooners. Ohio State–Oklahoma is one of the marquee non-conference games of the 2017 season; a night game only made sense.