COLUMBUS, Ohio — When Ohio State football coach Ryan Day speaks about the coronavirus pandemic, you can see the concern on his face and hear it in his voice. His Buckeyes are undefeated and in position for a return to the College Football Playoff. Yet you sense the second-year coach walks around daily with the fear of what the next batch of tests might mean — for the Buckeyes, for their opponent, for the entire Big Ten Conference and perhaps the sport itself in 2020. Up until 2 p.m. Wednesday, Day and his coaches were preparing for a Big Ten East trip to Maryland on Saturday. By 2:30 they were explaining to their players why Maryland’s COVID-19 outbreak forced the cancellation of that game. In addition to the football consequences of the cancellation, Day had to ponder another bleak possibility: Does the weekend off make his team more susceptible for…
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