Ohio State
Texas
No. 3 Buckeyes Meet No. 1 Longhorns Saturday at Noon
8/27/2025 6:15:00 AM | Football
FIRST AND TEN
- No. 3 (Associated Press) Ohio State hosts No. 1 Texas in a huge and much anticipated 2025 season-opening game Saturday, Aug. 30, at 12 noon at Ohio Stadium. FOX will broadcast the game to a national audience.
- Ohio State is ranked No. 3 in the Associated Press poll, but No. 2 in the US LBM Coaches Poll, and so this game represents the 63rd No. 1 vs. No. 2 matchup in college football history.
- The two teams met 232 days ago – Jan. 10 – at the Goodyear Cotton Bowl in a CFP semifinal won by Ohio State, 28-14.
- An iconic moment of that Cotton Bowl, Jack Sawyer's 83-yard fumble return TD with 2:13 to play and Ohio State leading 21-14, has been "flavorized" into a new concession stand menu item at Ohio Stadium: "Scoop N Score Nachos".
- In addition to a Week 3 game next year at Texas, Ohio State has home and home football series scheduled against Alabama in 2027-28 and Georgia in 2030-31.
- Ohio State is 6-14 all-time vs. SEC-member institutions, including a program first in 2025: multiple victories over SEC teams in one year.
- Fans are being asked to wear scarlet and Scarlet the 'Shoe, and to wave THE Towel.
BY THE NUMBERS
17: Ohio State has the fewest losses in the 11-season CFP era: 17. The Buckeyes, who are 129-17 since 2014, and Clemson (129-24) have the second-most wins during this period, trailing only Alabama at 136-18.  Â
.875: Ryan Day, who is 70-10 through his first six seasons as a head coach, is No. 1 nationally with a winning percentage of .875. His teams are 24-9 vs. Top 25 teams, 15-8 vs. Top 10 teams and 7-6 vs. Top 5 teams.
79-80: Ryan Day's Ohio State Buckeye teams have been ranked in the Top 10 of the Associated Press poll for 79 of his 80 games coached. The only blip: the team was ranked 11th for the Oct. 2, 2021 game vs. Rutgers.
8-2-1: Ohio State (4-1) and Texas (4-1-1) have impressive records in matchups between the No. 1 and No. 2 teams in the nation, but both have lost last: Ohio State to Florida in 2007; Texas to Ohio State in 2006.Â
MORE NO. 1 VS. NO. 2
- Ohio State vs. Texas is one of 11 Power 4 vs. Power 4 matchups of Week 1. The others:
- Alabama at Florida State, Auburn at Baylor, Georgia Tech at Colorado, LSU at Clemson, Nebraska vs. Cincinnati, Notre Dame at Miami-Fla., Syracuse vs. Tennessee, TCU at North Carolina, Utah at UCLA and Virginia Tech at South Carolina.
OHIO STATE VS. TEXAS
- Ohio State and Texas have split the previous four games on the gridiron, including each team winning on the road and at a bowl game.
KINGS OF THE NORTH
- SEC teams are 0-4 in Ohio Stadium.
- A visit to Ohio Stadium had a chilling effect on Tennessee last December 20 in the College Football Playoffs first-round: a 42-17 Ohio State victory in 25 degree weather.
- LSU lost to Ohio State, 36-33, in 1988.
- Ohio State defeated Kentucky in Ohio Stadium, 19-6, in 1935 in the Wildcats third season as a SEC member institution, and the Buckeyes defeated Vanderbilt, 75-0, in 1933, Vanderbilt's first season in the SEC.
