Ohio State-Marshall kickoff time announced

COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) -- Ohio State football's last non-conference game of the 2024 season now has a kickoff time.

The Buckeyes will host the Marshall Thundering Herd on Sept. 21 and the game will kickoff at noon from Ohio Stadium.

This Week 4 contest will be the Buckeyes' first game in two weeks after getting an early bye week following its 2-0 start. No. 3 Ohio State has started the season hot with two wins over opponents from the Mid-American Conference: 52-6 over Akron and 56-0 over Western Michigan.

2024 Ohio State Football Schedule

• Sept. 21: vs. Marshall (noon)
• Sept. 28: at. Michigan State
• Oct. 5: vs. Iowa
• Oct. 12: at. Oregon
• Oct. 26: vs. Nebraska (noon, 3:30 p.m. or 7:30 p.m.)
• Nov. 2: at. Penn State
• Nov. 9: vs. Purdue
• Nov. 16: at. Northwestern (noon or 3:30 p.m.)
• Nov. 23: vs. Indiana
• Nov. 30: vs. Michigan, noon

Marshall, a member of the Sun Belt conference, has started the season 1-1 with a 45-3 win over new football program Stony Brook and a 31-14 loss to Virginia Tech. The Herd also have Week 3 off and will be fresh for the contest in Columbus.

These two teams have met two times previously in Columbus with Ohio State winning 24-21 in 2004 and 45-7 in 2010. The 2004 contest was especially memorable with a poor Marshall punt late setting up a walk-off winning field goal for Mike Nugent. That game also had the first reviewed play in Ohio Stadium history.

The Buckeyes last game against a Sun Belt school was in 2022 against Arkansas State, a 45-12 win.