Ryan Day and Chip Kelly started in small-town New Hampshire

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TWENTY-FOUR YEARS ago, Delaware was rolling over New Hampshire, leading 31-3 late in the third quarter. The second-ranked Blue Hens were a perennial Football Championship Subdivision power. But UNH had something Delaware didn't: Ryan Day and Chip Kelly. Two of the game's most innovative offensive minds, who, even then, had an inherent trust in each other, molded from their Manchester roots.

Long before he became Ohio State's head coach, Day quarterbacked one of the biggest comebacks in college football history. Kelly, then UNH's offensive coordinator, kept dialing up creative passing plays, and Day kept completing throws. Then, on a fourth-and-19, Kelly called…