just in case you are not aware of the circumstances and facts regarding this topic.....
the date for saturday's game, 30 august 2025, was contracted 2 years ago during the negotiations between Texas, 0u, the sec, the rig12, disney and fox, which resulted in an agreement that paid 0u's fee to exit the rig12 a year early
https://www.si.com/college/2023/02/03/big-12-sec-texas-longhorns-oklahoma-sooners-split-explainer
Texas paid our own early exit fee
0u did not have the money to pay theirs
consequently, given that Texas could not move a year early without 0u, it was in Texas' interest to find the money for 0u
and thus, the venue for last year's Texas-michigan game, which was originally in Austin, was switched with the venue for the 2027 game, which was in ann arbor
the venue for this year's Texas-tosu game has always been columbus, however the date, 30 august 2025, was reconfirmed BY CONTRACT during the above mentioned negotiations in february 2023
the 2025/2027 venue flip of the Texas-michigan game was made so fox could broadcast last year's game in ann arbor under the fox b1g contract
that change helped create the cash necessary to pay 0u's early exit fee to the rig12
in addition, the dates for the 2025 (ann arbor) and 2026 (columbus) games were negotiated and set during the contract changes which rescheduled these games
YOU, tosu, were at the table during these negotiations
YOUR league was at the table during these negotiations
if you wanted the date changed, you, your league, and your tv partner should have made it part of the deal
and despite the above......
YOU, tosu, control the kick off time of the game this saturday
YOUR problem is YOUR b1g contract with fox because fox has a baseball contract that negates your ability to schedule marquee night games that would require a national fox ota broadcast
YOUR school, team, fanbase and media conflated our refusal to change the DAY of the game with with only 60 days notice, with YOUR belief that Texas was somehow responsible for YOU not getting YOUR night game
if your school wanted to change this game to the sunday of labor day weekend so it could be a night game and not violate fox's contract with major league baseball inre: no saturday night b1g national ota games, YOU should have rolled that in to the negotiations in february of 2023, rather than wait until 60 days out when thousands of fans had already booked flights, hotels, cars, bought tickets, and the University of Texas had already contracted it's charter flights, buses, hotels, etc.
2 years ago there would have been time to move back and reschedule all of the remaining non-conference games, and to work with the sec regarding our bye dates, in advance of the 2025 season schedule being set, all of which would have been done for YOUR benefit, not ours, to enable you and your league to get you a night game avoid conflict with your tv contract partner's relationship with major league baseball
it's amazing to me how that topic, the fox mlb contract regarding saturday primetime, was NEVER mentioned by your school, ad, fans or media, during their collective meltdown this summer over saturday's kickoff time