By: JEFF LOCKRIDGE (TENNESSEAN.COM) -

Vanderbilt will open its 2013 football season at Ohio State.

It will mark the third Big Ten opponent the Commodores have opened a season with since 2006, when they played at Michigan. Vanderbilt hosted Northwestern in 2010.

The game at Ohio Stadium will take place on Aug. 31, renewing a series that will have been dormant for 80 years. Vanderbilt and Ohio State have played four times (1908, 1909, 1931 and 1933). The Buckeyes hold a 3-1 advantage.

Vanderbilt vice chancellor of athletics David Williams declined to say what the one-year contract will pay his school.

Williams said Ohio State athletics director Gene Smith called around last October and offered Vanderbilt its choice of three dates in 2013. The contract was signed shortly thereafter, before Vanderbilt ousted Robbie Caldwell and hired James Franklin as its new coach.

“I always believe if you’re going to do that, make it the first game of the season so we’re both coming off the same hiatus,” Williams said.

Vanderbilt’s four-game series with Northwestern runs through 2014.

The Commodores will…..

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