Ryan Day became the fifth Ohio State football coach to win a national title, joining legends Paul Brown, Woody Hayes, Jim Tressel and Urban Meyer.
The Ohio State Buckeyes defeated the Notre Dame Fighting Irish, 34-23, to become 2024-25 College Football Playoff National Champions and earn its sixth national
Years of disappointment made Ohio State coach Ryan Day question whether he'd ever coach OSU to a title. Those heartbreaks made the title even sweeter.
Ryan Day is an exclusive club at Ohio State: the national championship winning coaches. Paul Brown, Woody Hayes, Jim Tressel, Urban Meyer and Day are the elite five. It’s like Mount Rushmore, but with an additional head put on for Day.
This victory will taste extra sweet for the wrongly-embattled Day, who could choose to leave Columbus with the task complete
Ohio State coach Ryan Day pointed to the Buckeyes sticking together through adversity for their national championship victory in an interview postgame on ESPN.
Holtz, 88, reignited their feud last week on X when he wrote that, “If Notre Dame doesn’t win, it’s because we want to preserve Ryan Day’s job. I was originally going to be at the game in spirit, but now I’ll be dragging my body along as well.” He was responding to a tweet wondering if he would attend the showdown.
Ryan Day deserved to feel vindication when he won a national championship less than two months after it seemed his Ohio State job was on the line.
Within the program, there wasn’t the same kind of doubt in Ryan Day that there was from some outside of the program. Following that national championship win, and while sitting next to their head coach, quarterback Will Howard and linebacker Cody Simon explained they never lost faith in Day.
Ohio State football's championship journey featured extreme lows. It made the magnitude of the highs so much more memorable.
Ryan Day deserved to feel vindication when he won a national championship less than two months after it seemed his Ohio State job was on the line. That relief only lasts so long. Day made that clear when it was suggested to him on Tuesday morning that Monday night’s 34-23 national championship game