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HB285 • 2026

Regards the start times of college football games

Regards the start times of college football games

Passed Legislature

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Sponsor
Tex Fischer
Last action
Official status
As Introduced
Effective date
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Plain English Breakdown

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Regards the start times of college football games

To enact section 3345.89 of the Revised Code with respect to the start times of college football games.

What This Bill Does

  • To enact section 3345.89 of the Revised Code with respect to the start times of college football games.

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Bill History

  1. Ohio Legislature

    As Introduced

Official Summary Text

To enact section 3345.89 of the Revised Code with respect to the start times of college football games.

Current Bill Text

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As Introduced

136th
General Assembly

Regular
Session
H. B. No. 285

2025-2026

Representative Fischer

To
enact section 3345.89 of the Revised Code
with
respect to the start times of college football games.

BE
IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF OHIO:

Section
1.
That
section 3345.89 of the Revised Code be enacted to read as follows:

Sec.
3345.89.
(A)
As used in this section, "state university" has the same
meaning as in section 3345.011 of the Revised Code.

(B)
Except as provided in division (C) of this section, no college
football game played in this state shall commence prior to
three-thirty p.m. on the day of the competition when both of the
following circumstances apply:

(1)
One competing team is the football team of a state university.

(2)
Both competing teams are ranked among the top ten teams in the
associated press poll, or its successor, of the national collegiate
athletic association's football bowl subdivision, or its successor.

(C)
Division (B) of this section does not apply if an earlier start time
of a college football game between two teams is a college football
tradition. For this purpose, a "college football tradition"
is a start time of a game between the teams of two institutions whose
football teams have competed against each other at least fifty times
and the start time has been the same for at least ninety-five per
cent of those games.

(D)
If a game subject to division (B) of this section starts at a time
earlier than permitted by that division, the attorney general shall
impose a fine of ten million dollars against either the host team's
football athletic conference or the television network broadcasting
or streaming the game, whichever party scheduled the earlier start
time.

(E)
No state university shall enter into or renew a contract with the
national collegiate athletic association, an athletic conference, or
a media entity under which any entity, directly or indirectly, may
compel or permit the university's football team to commence a college
football game that is subject to division (B) of this section at a
time that violates that division.