Buckeyes open as heavy favorite for Big Noon date with Nebraska
COLUMBUS — Ohio State didn’t play this weekend, hitting the midway point of its season after a road loss to Oregon last weekend. Nebraska, meanwhile, just got pummeled in a road game at Indiana on Saturday afternoon.
Now the two will meet in Columbus, and the Buckeyes are expected to get back on the winning side of things in a big way, while the Cornhuskers will be facing their second straight ranked team on the road.
Ohio State opened the week as a 23.5-point favorite over Nebraska for the Big Noon matchup on FOX. The total has been set at 48.5.
The Buckeyes are still hurting from their last-second loss to Oregon two Saturdays ago. Nebraska will be the first chance this team has to take the field again following the loss.
“It took a little while to get over that game,” Buckeyes coach Ryan Day said on Thursday. “Coming back off the road and not finishing the game the way we wanted to, it took us a few days. But, you know, got out there on Tuesday, got moving around, and then yesterday [Wednesday] I thought we had a really good practice. The focus is now moving forward, where we’re at, where we’re going, you know, get the things that we have to get fixed. Certainly you want to win in games like that.
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“You stew on it for a while, you keep working at it, but eventually you have to move on. You start focusing on moving forward. Because when you look at where we are moving forward, we have six games here in the second half of the season, and if you can go win those games, you’re right back where you need to be.”
The matchup between the Buckeyes and Cornhuskers will be a weird game of sorts for Nebraska freshman quarterback and starter Dylan Raiola, who was committed to Ohio State for nearly a year before decommitting and committing to Georgia, then leaving that recruiting class to sign with head coach Matt Rhule and Nebraska.
Ohio State is 9-1 all-time against Nebraska. The Buckeyes have won seven in a row in the series after losing at Nebraska in 2021. Most recently, they pulled out a tough 26-17 road win in Lincoln back in 2021. In that game, Jaxon Smith-Njigba was a star, catching 15 passes for 240 yards and a receiving touchdown.
Nebraska vs. Ohio State betting notes, trends
+ Ohio State is 3-3 against the spread this season
+ Nebraska is 4-2-1 against the number
+ The Buckeyes have won nine of their 10 all-time games against Nebraska
+ The total has gone over in four of the six Ohio State games so far
+ The total has gone under in five of Nebraska’s seven games
+ Ohio State has never lost to Nebraska in Ohio Stadium
+ The Buckeyes are 10-3 straight up coming off at least a week of rest under Ryan Day
