Likely starting time for Iowa-Ohio State football is ...

It won't be at 7 p.m. and barring a major collapse from Iowa, it won't be 11 a.m., either. The Iowa-Ohio State game is the league's most attractive match-up on Nov. 14 and likely is headed to ABC's 2:30 p.m. time slot.

"Our television contracts state that a Big Ten game will not be played in primetime in November," said Scott Chipman, the Big Ten's assistant commissioner for communications. "So it's not an official Big Ten policy but it is a part of our television contracts."

Iowa played a primetime game at Minnesota last year to close the college football curtain on the Metrodome. There won't be anymore night games in Minnesota unless the television contract is changed.

"If a game is in a dome, then our TV contract policy was waived," Chipman said. "But now that all of our teams play in outside facilities there will be no primetime games in November."

ABC selects first among Big Ten games that day, followed by either the Big Ten Network or ESPN, which rotate the second selection. Other Big Ten games scheduled that day include Indiana at Penn State, Michigan at Wisconsin, Michigan State at Purdue and Northwestern at Illinois. Minnesota hosts South Dakota State.