A holiday week is another game week for the third-ranked Ohio State football team. With Thanksgiving coming up and a visit to Illinois on the docket, coach Ryan Day held his usual preseason press conference Tuesday. Here are five takeaways: 1. A holiday week presents another reminder of how tough this year is for the players, who have been instructed to remain mostly in isolation to lessen the risk of contracting COVID-19. “It’s been hard I think for our players because they’ve really not been around their families for an extended period of time, and I think this being Thanksgiving week, it’s really hard on all the families and these young man,” said Day, who has also limited his contact with his own family as a precaution. “But the other side of it is they’ve sacrifice so much to get to this point, so it’s kind of that balancing act.…
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