COLUMBUS, Ohio — Ryan Day may expect a top-10 defense, but more often than not, Ohio State football fell short of that standard over the past decade. A three-year run from 2015-17 and the 2019 team all easily cleared that standard. Yet you can find exactly as many Buckeye squads from the past 10 years beneath a top-40 performance. That includes three of the past four — a trend that pushed Day to switch defense coordinators two games in and overhaul the staff in the offseason. Day made clear in words and actions his disappointment of the defense in 2021. At Big Ten Media Days in Indianapolis earlier this week, he put a number on those expectations. That “top 10? designation was simultaneously vague by measure, nebulous by application and plainly insistent. “The expectation is a top-10 offense every year, and the expectation is a top-10 defense,” Day said. Ohio…
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