In an interview with The Athletic’s Scott Dochterman this week, the Fox Sports executive said Texas “exercised their contractual right” to veto Ohio State’s season opener move to Sunday.
“There was a deal in place between Fox and Ohio State to move the game to Sunday night,” Mulvihill told Dochterman. “We felt like Week 1 prior to NFL kickoff gave us an opportunity to look at sort of an alternate scenario, and then Texas exercised their contractual right to keep the game on Saturday, which is completely their right. I can understand why they would take that position, but we did work with the school to try to come up with a different scenario and get the game to Sunday.