Michael Cohen College Football and College Basketball Writer In 2021, the final week of November was particularly brutal for Ohio State head coach Ryan Day. Not only had Day’s team lost to archrival Michigan for the first time in a decade to spoil the Buckeyes’ hopes of reaching the College Football Playoff, but he also had to endure a pair of pointed barbs in the never-ending war of words between two programs that despise each other. The first came from Michigan head coach Jim Harbaugh, whose glowing postgame press conference following his team’s 42-27 triumph on a snow-swept day in Ann Arbor included a jab that questioned whether Day was truly worthy of inheriting the Ohio State job from predecessor Urban Meyer in 2019. “Sometimes people that are standing on third base think they hit a triple, you know?” Harbaugh said in what became an instant soundbite. “But they didn’t.”…
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