COLUMBUS, Ohio — Ohio State football coach Ryan Day mentioned no one by name Wednesday while defending his program’s worthiness for the College Football Playoff. Some of the shade has come from other prominent coaches, including Clemson’s Dabo Swinney and Florida’s Dan Mullen. Even when not specifically mentioning Ohio State, one could easily extrapolate to whom they were referring when they lamented teams who have played half as many games as theirs making the playoff. Alabama, Clemson and Notre Dame will play their 11th game Saturday in their respective conference championships. Ohio State will be 6-0 if it beats Northwestern in the Big Ten championship game. When asked Wednesday why that would be enough to prove his team worthy of the playoff, Day pushed back against the notion the Buckeyes have had an easy road. “We’ve had disappointments. We’ve had games canceled. We’ve had the season canceled. We went through…
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