![Ohio State Buckeyes head coach Ryan Day and his wife Nina Day sing \"Carmen Ohio\" following the NCAA football game against the Tulsa Golden Hurricane at Ohio Stadium in Columbus on Saturday, Sept. 18, 2021. Ohio State won 41-20.
Tulsa At Ohio State Football](https://images2.minutemediacdn.com/image/upload/c_crop,x_0,y_0,w_3000,h_1687/c_fill,w_720,ar_16:9,f_auto,q_auto,g_auto/images/ImagnImages/mmsport/151/01k89ca9qky45p9xabdk.jpg "Ohio State Buckeyes head coach Ryan Day and his wife Nina Day sing \\"Carmen Ohio\\" following the NCAA football game against the Tulsa Golden Hurricane at Ohio Stadium in Columbus on Saturday, Sept. 18, 2021. Ohio State won 41-20.
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The Ohio State football team lost to Michigan for a fourth-straight time last season. It was perhaps the worst loss of the Ryan Day era, considering it was a home game against the worst Michigan team since 2020. That loss seemed to signal that the Buckeyes were going to lose in the first round of the College Football Playoffs.
That loss got fans to finally rally around the idea of firing Day. Up to that point, he hadn't won a national championship and hadn't won a Big Ten championship since 2020. Things started get very bad around the Day household, and his family was starting to feel that burden.
In Buckeye Brotherhood, a book written about the 2024 national championship season by Bill Rabinowitz, it was revealed just how much Nina Day was affected by the loss. It got so bad that she started packing up the house, wanting to leave Columbus.
Ryan Day's wife was getting ready to leave Ohio State after loss to TTUN
Despite her family being in Columbus, Nina Day was prepared to pack up and leave to get away.
"But it felt like the rest of the world, especially the Ohio State fan base, was against them. The Days had conversations with their kids about where they might want to move. Nina didn't want to leave Columbus before the College Football Playoff started because she didn't want RYan to be alone. But saying beyond that seemed untenable. Nina started taking down family photos and decluttering the house."
She even started packing up the house, ready to leave Columbus behind. Day claimed that it was grinding away at the family's mental health after that loss, so she wanted to get out. Obviously, things changed very quickly once the Buckeyes went on their rampage over the next four weeks.
The Ohio State Buckeyes ended up running roughshod through Tennessee, Oregon, Texas, and Notre Dame en route to winning a national championship. Now, the Buckeyes look unbeatable. If he wins back-to-back titles, he has a claim to being the greatest coach in Ohio State football history.
It shows just how quickly things can change in the world of college football. If he is able to beat TTUN this season, and follow that up with another national title, Day will be Ohio State royalty forever.