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Ryan Day Stresses Importance of OSU Winning Big Ten Title: 'It Just Means So Much'

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Ohio State head coach Ryan Day says he wants to keep conference championship games in college football, despite the challenging schedule conference runner-ups will face in the newly-expanded College Football Playoff.

"I think what that's meant to college football, the tradition of college football and playing in this stadium, the electricity of that weekend and what it means to win the conference, especially having 18— it just means so much," Day said, per ESPN's Heather Dinich. "To take that away would be a challenge. When you look at it practically from a wider lens of the playoff, I can see the argument on both sides.