October 30, 2024

Ohio State's Ryan Day embracing expectations with pressure mounting on Buckeyes: 'We don't have a choice'

Getty Images National championship expectations are prevalent around the Ohio State football program, and coach Ryan Day knows they won’t be going away anytime soon as he enters his fifth season at the helm. The Buckeyes have flirted with the national title multiple times under his watch — three College Football Playoff berths and one CFP National Championship appearance, to be exact — but the program hasn’t brought home college football’s most coveted hardware since 2014. Pressure has only mounted on Day and his staff over the past two seasons thanks to consecutive losses to Michigan in the longtime rivalry series. Provided that matchup regularly carries Big Ten championship and CFP implications, fixing Ohio State’s recent woes against the Wolverines is all but imperative for Day and Co. if national titles remain the ultimate goal in Columbus.  “We don’t have a choice [of facing national title expectations]” Day told ESPN.…

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