Ohio State vs Cincinnati Preview

Here’s everything you need to know to enjoy Ohio State vs. Cincinnati.

Kickoff Time

The game kicks off Saturday, September 7 at 12:00 pm Eastern.

TV & Streaming

You can watch the game on ABC, or stream it via the WatchESPN app. Bob Wischusen, Dan Orlovsky, and Allison Williams are on the call.

Radio

The game will be carried live on the Ohio State Football Radio Network. Find your local Ohio State Football radio stationhere.

Weather

The high for Saturday is projected at 77 with partly cloudy skies and a light breeze.

For the second week in a row, it’s close to perfect early-season football weather. It’s not sweatshirt weather just yet, but you’re not going to get heat stroke, either. This early in the season, that’s a win.

You can find an updated weekend forecast for the OSU campus area here.

Point Spread

The Buckeyes are a 16.5-point favorite against the Bearcats. The Over/Under for the game is 56.

If you want to combine those numbers, that means Vegas is expecting something in the neighborhood of a 36-20 win for Ohio State.

Tickets

Ohio State would very much like for you to know that tickets are still available through the ticket office or through Ticketmaster. So now you know.

You can also get in the door via the secondary market.

The “get in” price is sitting around $83 as of Tuesday evening. You can score a seat on the 50 for a little over $200 per ticket.

As always, those prices are nearly guaranteed to drop as game day gets closer.

A word of warning if you go the old-fashioned route and scalp a seat outside the Horseshoe: OSU has reported a big increase in fakes, especially with “print at home” tickets.

They suggest you only buy tickets through Ohio State Athletics Ticket Office, Ticketmaster, and Buckeyes Ticket Exchange.

Gates at Ohio Stadium open at 10:00 am, two hours prior to kickoff.

Luke Fickell About To Make History, And 10 Other Notes To Know

By www.theozone.net Tom Orr

It’s week two for the 2019 Ohio State Buckeyes as they face off against the Cincinnati Bearcats.

There’s a lot to learn from this week’s official game notes, courtesy of the OSU Sports Information Department.

For one thing, it has been nearly a century since the Buckeyes last lost to an in-state opponent.

Oberlin won 7-6 over OSU at old Ohio Field on October 8, 1921.

Assuming they don’t play an in-state team in a bowl game, Ohio State just has to beat Cincinnati this weekend, Miami in two weeks, Bowling Green in 2020, and Akron in 2021 to have that unbeaten streak reach an even 100 years.

But there are also a few notes of note that we had to dig up on our own.

This weekend marks the return of former OSU head coach Luke Fickell to the Horseshoe. He’s the first former Buckeye head coach to later coach against the Bucks since Paul Brown.

Brown coached the Buckeyes from 1941-1943 before being commissioned into the U.S. Navy and taking over as the head coach at Great Lakes Naval Station for 1944 and 1945.

OSU faced Brown’s Great Lakes team in 1944, with the Buckeyes winning 26-6.

Former OSU head coach Wes Fesler (1947-1950) went on to coach Minnesota from 1951-1953, but never faced the Buckeyes.

Below are a few notes from OSU, each with some context from TheOzone.

.787

The Buckeyes have the highest home winning percentage of any school that has played 500 or more home games in its history. They have gone 444-112-20 in Ohio Stadium.

Tennessee is second at .775, but based on last weekend, that’s probably going to drop this fall.

2

Jeremy Ruckert caught a pair of touchdown passes in the Buckeyes’ opening weekend win over FAU.

He became the first OSU tight end since Nick Vannett in 2014 vs. Rutgers to record two touchdowns in a single game.

The last time two different OSU tight ends each caught touchdowns in the same game was when Marcus Baugh and Rashod Berry did it at Nebraska in 2017.

7

K.J. Hill needs seven receptions to pass Gary Williams and move into fourth place all time on the OSU career catches list. He needs 45 more to break David Boston’s school record (191).

9

Ohio State needs nine more wins this season to tie the 2000s as the winningest decade in Ohio State football history. They are currently 93-17 since 2010. They won 102 games from 2000-2009.

32

Ohio State has won 32 consecutive games that kicked off at noon. Their last loss in a nooner was against Michigan in 2011.

41

The Buckeyes have won 41 straight games against in-state teams. They tied Wooster in 1924. Their unbeaten streak currently stands at 44 games, going back to that 1921 loss against Oberlin.

48-3

OSU has only lost three of its last 51 home games. That stretches back to the start of the 2012 season. Only Virginia Tech (2014), Michigan State (2015), and Oklahoma (2017) have won in Ohio Stadium since Urban Meyer took over the program.

179

OSU kickers have made their last 179 extra point attempts, the third-longest streak in the nation.

The last time an OSU kicker missed an extra point was Tyler Durbin in a loss at Penn State in 2016.

Utah just saw its streak of 182 consecutive PATs snapped last week in a win over BYU.

183-48-15

OSU’s record all-time against schools from inside the state of Ohio. The Bucks are 14-2 against Cincinnati all-time, only suffering losses in 1896 and 1897.

2010

It’s been close to a decade since the last time a Buckeye returned a kickoff for a touchdown. Jordan Hall did it against Michigan in 2010