With their 42-17 first-round victory over Tennessee on Saturday night, the Buckeyes return to Pasadena for a College Football Playoff quarterfinal matchup with Oregon, one of two teams that defeated Ohio State in the regular season .

The Rose Bowl will be played on New Year’s Day in its traditional 5:00 p.m. ET time slot and will be televised by ESPN.

It will be Ohio State’s 17th all-time Rose Bowl appearance and first since the 2021 season, when it earned a 48-45 victory over Utah in a non-playoff game. Ohio State has won its last four Rose Bowl appearances and has a 9-7 all-time record in Pasadena.

Oregon – making its ninth appearance in the Rose Bowl – secured the No. 1 seed in the game by winning the Big Ten championship. Ohio State travels to the Rose Bowl for its CFP quarterfinals as a No. 8 seed; The Ducks are the No. 1 seed in the CFP and the only undefeated team in college football.

In addition to trying to keep its national championship hopes alive, Ohio State will be looking for revenge after the Ducks handed the Buckeyes a 32-31 loss on Oct. 12 at Autzen Stadium in Oregon. It’s the first time the Buckeyes will play the same team twice in the same year since 2019, when Ohio State earned a 34-21 win over Wisconsin in the Big Ten Championship Game after topping the Badgers 38-7 in the regular season had defeated.

Ohio State was a 1.5-point betting favorite on FanDuel to beat Oregon late Saturday night.

The Ohio State vs. Oregon quarterfinal game guarantees that the Big Ten will have at least one team in the CFP semifinals. The Big Ten could have two semifinalists if No. 6 seed Penn State, which earned a 38-10 win over SMU in its first-round game on Saturday, defeats No. 3 seed Boise State in its quarterfinal game at the Fiesta Bowl.