Amid college football’s cutthroat world, there can be appreciation for what Ryan Day and the Buckeyes did. Last summer Ryan Day offered up the words that are so easily used against him now: “Maybe at some places, 11–2 with a Rose Bowl victory is a good year. It isn’t at Ohio State.” He just went 11–2 again—this time with no Big Ten title, another rivalry loss to Michigan and a College Football Playoff loss. It was his second straight championship-free year. This will prompt some discussion of soul-searching in Columbus, and maybe somebody will mention the fact that Day’s record at Ohio State is 45–6. I’m just a writer, but I always thought winning 88% of your games was pretty good. Day gets paid nearly $10 million per year to coach a strange form of professional football wherein the employees are unsalaried because they are required to attend college, so I don’t…
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