Ohio State Football Schedule Breakdown: Sure Wins, Potential Losses, Big Ten Teams Missed

Pete Fiutak

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Nov 4, 2023; Piscataway, New Jersey, USA; Ohio State Buckeyes helmets rest on the field before the game against the Rutgers Scarlet Knights at SHI Stadium.

In the new 18-team Big Ten, it’s all about the schedules, who everyone misses and where, and when the nasty games are. You know who the biggest teams are - some get a much bigger break than others.

No game is a 100% lock in the Big Ten, and there are always surprises, but for the most part, what are the relatively certain wins on the 2024 Ohio State football schedule? What are the likely underdog games - the true 50/50 games are left alone - and which Big Ten teams does Ohio State miss?

Ohio State Football Schedule: Relatively certain Buckeye wins

Akron, Indiana, Marshall, Purdue, at Northwestern, Western Michigan

Ohio State Football Schedule: Relatively certain Buckeye underdog games

None

Ohio State Football Schedule: Who do the Buckeyes miss in the Big Ten?

Illinois, Maryland, Minnesota, Rutgers, UCLA, USC, Washington, Wisconsin

2024 Ohio State Football Schedule

Aug 31 Akron
Sept 7 Western Michigan
Sept 14 OPEN DATE
Sept 21 Marshall
Sept 28 at Michigan State
Oct 5 Iowa
Oct 12 at Oregon
Oct 19 OPEN DATE
Oct 26 Nebraska
Nov 2 at Penn State
Nov 9 Purdue
Nov 16 at Northwestern
Nov 23 Indiana
Nov 30 Michigan

Pete Fiutak

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Publisher of CollegeFootballNews.com starting in 1998, Pete Fiutak was a college football part of the very start of Rivals, Scout, the FOXSports.com relaunch, Stadium/Campus Insiders, and the USA TODAY College Wire sites. 

He was the first ever on-air guest on CBS Sports Network, was a talking head for five years at Stadium, and did in-stadium TV work at the first five College Football Playoff National Championships. But all anyone really seems to care about is that he did all the player ratings for various college football and basketball video games for four years in the 2000s.