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A little over two weeks after Ohio State won the College Football Playoff championship by beating Notre Dame 34-23, Buckeyes coach Ryan Day said he is setting his sights on another national title.
On Monday he told TNT’s Ernie Johnson and Charles Barkley that he hopes to emulate the coach who guided OSU’s football team from 1951-1978.
“Woody Hayes is the last one to win multiple national championships at Ohio State,” Day said. “That’s something I’ve now set for myself. To be the next head coach to win multiple championships at Ohio State. There’s still a lot more to be done.”
Hayes’ Buckeyes won it all in 1954, 1957 and 1968.
Day is 70-10 at Ohio State. He is one of just three active FBS coaches, along with Clemson’s Dabo Swinney and Georgia’s Kirby Smart, to have won a national championship. He’s the first and only coach to hoist the golden trophy after surviving the new expanded playoff format.
His teams have ranked in the top 3 nationally in scoring three times, and they’ve ended in the top 10 in total offense four times.
Day won Big Ten Coach of the Year honors in 2019, the first Ohio State coach in 40 years to do so.
At age 45, he’s well-positioned to reach the top of the college football world again. If anything does keep him from that goal, it may be the lure of the NFL.
He was a quarterbacks coach with the Philadelphia Eagles in 2015 and spent the 2016 season in that same role with the San Francisco 49ers.
“I would never want to say I would never consider it because you don’t know how things can change,” Day told Johnson and Barkley.
Importantly, though, he continued.
“I was in the NFL for two years and had a great experience there and it’s a great league,” he said, “but right now the impact we can make on young people is, to me, more impactful in college. That’s why I got into this game, to do…
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Author : The Columbus Dispatch
Publish date : 2025-01-30 03:08:00
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