Ohio State and Alabama's upcoming series and who else it should play in the non-conference schedule

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🗓️ 12 May 2026

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

The Ohio State-Alabama series is officially still on schedule, with OSU first heading down to Tuscaloosa in 2026. So who else should Ohio State face in the future? On this episode of Buckeye Talk, Stephen Means, Stefan Krajisnik and Andrew Gillis discuss the importance of this series still happening, what it means about the future of the sport and which non-conference Power 4 teams the programs should play next. Thanks for listening to Buckeye Talk and sign up to get text messages from experts Stephen Means, Stefan Krajisnik and Andrew Gillis at 614-350-3315. Get the insider analysis, have your voice heard on the Buckeye Talk podcast and connect with the best Buckeye community out there. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:15.8	Music Hey, hey, where you've been?
0:35.6	Buckeye talk is about to begin.
0:39.6	Hey, hey, hey, come on, man.
0:49.9	Welcome back to Buckeye Talk.
0:51.4	I am Stephen Kriestink, and that is Andrew Gillis. We are back. It's a Tuesday pod. If you heard the Monday pod, I hope you enjoyed the records pot. We recorded that two weeks ago and then a lot of things changed in college football. But thank the football gods. It did not impact the recording of that pod because that would have been rough. Listen to that if things were just like factually inaccurate.
1:11.7	So just as a little bit of like inside baseball here, Stefan and I went on vacation. I was gone for two weeks.
1:16.5	Stefan was gone for like four days. And in that four day period when we were both off, a lot of things happened in college football.
1:23.7	Kind of. Like it was a lot of things that happened but didn't actually happen because now we live in this world where, hey, we're reporting that something that's already scheduled to happen is still scheduled to happen. And that is the Ohio State Alabama Home and Home Series, which kicks off next year in 2026. And then in 2027, it'll happen again. I think it's in Tuscaloosa in 26, if I have that correct?
1:45.9	No, in 27 and 28.
2:01.6	Yeah, 27, 28. The world's moving too fast. But it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, Ohio State host in 27. They go on the road in 28. I'm just wrong about a lot of these things. 29, 29 is off, and then I think 30 they go to Georgia.
2:01.6	Yeah, yeah, we'll talk about the teams who are already, already canceling non-conference
2:07.6	games later on in this pot.
2:09.0	Listen, I'm getting back into the flow of things, man.
2:11.0	I've been on vacation.
2:12.3	I went to Europe, and my significant, my girlfriend and I were having a conversation about
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