Like every other sports channel, BTN has gotten creative with its programming during the COVID-19 health crisis. We’ve seen a slew of classic games, countdowns and commentary outside of the normal broadcasting of live sports.
This week, it changed things up a bit and is playing classic rivalry games, dedicating one day per week on the biggest rivalries in the conference. It kicked things off Monday with classic Ohio State-Penn State basketball and football games, and we had a pretty good haunch we’d get some classics between Ohio State and Michigan at some point.
That has now become a reality. BTN will air classic Ohio State-Michigan games Saturday. It all starts very early in the morning and goes until the wee hours of Sunday. Here’s the complete schedule of classic games. Keep in mind, the network had to mine hard for a classic Wolverine win over the Buckeyes, so it is airing the 2011 game three times.
Next … The schedule
Saturday
- 6:00 AM – BTN Football in 60: Ohio State at Michigan from 11/30/13 (Ohio State wins 42-41)
- 7:30 AM – BTN Football in 60: Ohio State at Michigan from 11/28/15 (Ohio State wins 42-13)
- 8:30 AM – Michigan Football Classic: Ohio State at Michigan from 11/26/11 (Michigan wins 40-34)
- 10:30 AM – Ohio State Football Classic: Ohio State at Michigan from 11/30/19 (Ohio State wins 56-27)
- Noon – BTN Basketball in 60: Ohio State at Michigan from 1/29/19 (Michigan wins 65-49)
- 1:00 PM – Michigan Football Classic: Ohio State at Michigan from 11/26/11 (Michigan wins 40-34)
- 2:00 PM – BTN Football in 60: Ohio State at Michigan enhanced from 11/25/17 (Ohio State wins 31-20)
- 5:00 PM – Michigan Football Classic: Ohio State at Michigan from 11/26/11 (Michigan wins 40-34)
- 6:00 PM – Tiebreaker. The story of the 1973 Ohio State-Michigan 10-10 tie.
- 7:00 PM – Ohio State Football Classic: Michigan at Ohio State from 11/18/06 (Ohio State wins 42-39)
- 8:00 PM – The Game: 2006 Remembered
- 9:00 PM – Ohio State Football Classic: Michigan at Ohio State from 11/26/16 (Ohio State wins in 2 OT 30-27). Urban Meyer will answer questions live on BTN’s Instagram account.
- 11:00 PM – BTN Basketball in 60: Michigan at Ohio State from 2/16/16 (Ohio State wins 76-66)
Sunday
- 12:30 AM – Ohio State Football Classic: Michigan at Ohio State from 11/29/14 (Ohio State wins 42-28)
- 2:30 AM – BTN Football in 60: Michigan at Ohio State from 11/24/18 (Ohio State wins 62-39)
- 5:00 AM – BTN Basketball in 60: Ohio State at Michigan from 2/4/20 (Ohio State wins 61-58)
If you are counting, that’s fourteen classic games being re-aired with ten of them being Buckeye wins, four being Wolverine wins (but one game is re-aired three times).
