August 13, 2026

Football: Ohio State focuses on Nebraska with maintained awareness of COVID-19


Ohio State head coach Ryan Day calls plays from the sidelines in the second half of the Big Ten Championship game against Wisconsin Dec. 7. Ohio State won 34-21. Credit: Cori Wade | Lantern File Photo Ohio State has not played a game yet, but the team is still fending off fatigue.  In 2020, the fatigue does not result from physical punishment taken throughout the course of a football season but rather from the constant attention that must be paid to COVID-19. Hesitant to call Ohio State’s efforts against the virus successful, head coach Ryan Day emphasized — as he has to his team every day — that they cannot let their guard down.  “To look at it as a success now would be premature because we still have two more months of it,” Day said Tuesday in a Zoom call. “This is not a week-to-week thing, it’s all the…

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