It’s been twelve seasons since Ohio State played in a non-New Year’s Six/BCS bowl game.
Since replacing Urban Meyer as head coach, Ryan Day has led Ohio State to the College Football Playoff three times in five seasons.
Yet Ryan Day also gets listed on the hot seat rankings as “pressure is mounting” (as CBS Sports’ Dennis Dodd says). That’s a product of two factors: first, the high expectations for Ohio State football.
And perhaps more importantly, the fact Ohio State hasn’t beaten “that team up north” since 2019. A 1-3 record (with a COVID cancellation in 2020) by Ryan Day in “the game” (as fans in two of 50 states call it) is raising the temperature of Day’s seat in Columbus.