COLUMBUS, Ohio — Ohio State coach Ryan Day on Tuesday did something in his first season that neither Jim Tressel nor Urban Meyer accomplished in their national championship careers. Day broke one of the more perplexing streaks in the Big Ten Conference by winning half of a split vote for the Big Ten Conference’s Coach of the Year. Day earned the vote of media by guiding the Buckeyes to a 12-0 record and third consecutive Big Ten East Division championship. The coaches voted for Minnesota’s P.J. Fleck, who took a more conventional route to the award by surpassing his program’s modest outside expectations. Day became the first Buckeyes coach recognized with the award by either media or coaches since Earl Bruce in 1979. Ohio State has won or shared 15 Big Ten championships in 40 years since, including three undefeated conference runs. Yet neither Jim Cooper nor Tressel nor Meyer…
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