Vance jokes about moving Ohio State-Notre Dame game after inauguration
JD Vance says he was just joking about skipping the inauguration in order to watch the Ohio State Buckeyes compete in the college football title game, but the vice president-elect adds he's fantasizing about the matchup being postponed by a day.
"Man, I really wish they could move the game until Tuesday," Vance said Sunday in an interview on "Fox News Sunday."
Ohio State University is poised to play the University of Notre Dame in the College Football Playoff National Championship Game game in Atlanta on Jan. 20 — the same day as the presidential inauguration. Forty-year-old Vance is an Ohio State alumnus.
Asked by "Fox News Sunday's" Shannon Bream if there's "some kind of executive power to move the game," Vance replied with a grin, "Trust me, I've asked. Apparently not."
But, he told Bream, his social media post about skipping the inaugural festivities for the football face-off was said in jest.
In a Friday post on X, Vance wrote, "Hopefully everyone is cool with me skipping the inauguration so I can go to the national title game."
"I assure you, that was a joke. I will be there doing my constitutional duty and swearing in as the 50th vice president of the United States," he said Sunday.
But he then made an appeal: "If you're watching this show and you have the power [to move the game], I'd really like to watch the Buckeyes."
"I don't want to be at the inaugural ball like staring at my phone because we're watching Ohio State versus Notre Dame. So let's move that game," he said.
"But if not, I'll be rooting for the Buckeyes in spirit."