Ohio State football hired Jim Knowles on Tuesday as the new defensive coordinator as the Buckeyes try to bounce back from missing the College Football Playoffs for the first time in Ryan Day’s three-year tenure as head coach. And Knowles has a different background from the coordinator he’s about to replace. Kerry Coombs, who lost his defensive play calling duties following a loss to Oregon in Week 2, is a lifelong football coach. From Southeast Ohio, Coombs built one of the most successful Ohio high school programs in his hometown of Colerain before moving to college and the NFL and back to the college ranks. Matt Barnes: Ohio State’s Matt Barnes has turned lifelong obsession into impressive coaching career ‘It’s going to hurt for a while.’: Ohio State knows it must move on after loss to Michigan Rose Bowl: No. 6 Ohio State headed to Rose Bowl to face Pac-12…
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