Bill Rabinowitz | Buckeye Xtra Ryan Day knows that watching from his couch instead of the sideline on Saturday will be agonizing. It sure beats the alternative for the Ohio State football coach and his Buckeyes. A week after deciding to cancel its game at Illinois because of a COVID-19 outbreak on the team, Ohio State plays at Michigan State on Saturday, assuming there isn’t a late setback. Day won’t be there. He tested positive for the coronavirus and is quarantining at home. Defensive line coach and associate head coach Larry Johnson will fill in as head coach while Day watches anxiously from home. “I’ll be watching and communicating up until game time and trying to do the best I can that way,” Day said Thursday. “But once the game starts, the coaches have to coach, and the players have to play. “It’ll probably be the hardest three hours of…
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