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Ohio State Football: How a national championship can change everything

By Ryan Stano

Dec 31, 2022; Atlanta, Georgia, USA; Ohio State Buckeyes head coach Ryan Day leads his team in warm-ups prior to the Peach Bowl in the College Football Playoff semifinal at Mercedes-Benz Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Adam Cairns-The Columbus DispatchNcaa Football Peach Bowl Ohio State At Georgia
Dec 31, 2022; Atlanta, Georgia, USA; Ohio State Buckeyes head coach Ryan Day leads his team in warm-ups prior to the Peach Bowl in the College Football Playoff semifinal at Mercedes-Benz Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Adam Cairns-The Columbus DispatchNcaa Football Peach Bowl Ohio State At Georgia /
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The Ohio State football program is one of the few college football programs in the country that can truly say they go into every season being able to compete for a national championship. They don’t rebuild, they reload. They are one of only a handful of programs that can do that.

Yet, the Buckeyes are coming up on a decade since they last won one. They’ve won just two in the past 53 years. Ryan Day has played for one, but couldn’t quite get the job done. Right now, he’s known as a coach that can get to the big games but can’t quite win them. Sounds a lot like one former coach.

Day still has a chance to change the entire perception of him this season. A national championship changes everything. Not only does it change how Ohio State football fans think of him, but it changes the way the national media looks at him as well.

A national title pretty much gives Day a lifetime contract if he wants one, barring some NCAA issues or off-the-field incidents. He would no longer have to hear noise about him losing his job if he can’t beat TTUN or any other big game on the Buckeyes’ schedule.

This year, it’s going to be pretty tough to get that done. With road games against Notre Dame and Michigan, it’s going to take a truly great team to make the College Football Playoff. I’m not sure if this is a truly great roster all the way around. Coaching can make up that gap though.

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If Ohio State does win it all this year, Day will be celebrated far and wide as a top-five coach in the country. That’s something all Ohio State fans desperately want. We want to root for this guy.

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