Stocks are down.
The truth about writing this piece is that it's rarely an even blend between good and bad trends for Ohio State. Either the Buckeyes win big and most things are hunky-dory or they lose (or win by too close a margin) and most things are plummeting toward an abyss. Sports operate in countless gray areas, but there's something black and white in Columbus – you have to win that game. The Game.
A psychological stubbornness to stick with the running game and a failure to adequately address special teams are easy reasons to pin on Ryan Day for why Ohio State lost to a Michigan team it simply couldn't have lost to without calls for his head.