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Date announced for Ohio State football's 2026 game at Indiana
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Ohio State has a date for one of its nine Big Ten games for next season.
Presumably to capitalize on interest generated by Indiana 's winning the College Football Playoff final, the league announced that the national champion Hoosiers will host the Buckeyes on Oct. 17. No kickoff time is set.
Indiana is back on the Buckeyes' schedule for the regular season after they rotated off last year. The teams met in the Big Ten championship game in December, a 13-10 triumph for the Hoosiers as they continued their unbeaten season.
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It was a rare setback in the series for Ohio State, which had not lost to Indiana since 1988.
Before the announcement, only the dates of the Buckeyes' three nonconference games in 2026 had been set. They host Ball State on Sept. 5 and Kent State on Sept. 19 with a trip to Texas in between on Sept. 12, according to scheduling agreements.
The rest of the conference schedule will be released by the Big Ten on Jan. 27.
The Buckeyes will have five conference home games against Illinois, Maryland, Michigan, Northwestern and Oregon and also visit Iowa, Nebraska and USC.
Joey Kaufman covers Ohio State football for The Columbus Dispatch. Email him at jkaufman@dispatch.com and follow along on Bluesky , Instagram and X for more.
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