Tressel, of course, was speaking from experience through the lens of what current coach Ryan Day and his family go through on a weekly basis in Columbus. "The next day they're saying you're horrible and you're really not.

Holtz, 88, reignited their feud last week on X when he wrote that, “If Notre Dame doesn’t win, it’s because we want to preserve Ryan Day’s job. I was originally going to be at the game in spirit, but now I’ll be dragging my body along as well.” He was responding to a tweet wondering if he would attend the showdown.

Instead of a smooth ride through the tunnels at Mercedes-Benz Stadium in Atlanta on Monday night, Ohio State coach Ryan Day found himself in a precarious situation. Day and several others were on a golf cart that crashed while trying to make a turn that it just absolutely could not make — which made for a pretty hilarious scene after their national championship victory.

He received harassment and threats of physical harm from unhinged fans — also some death threats, his players said — and his wife and children endured weeks of verbal abuse. Even Lou Holtz, the 88-year-old former Notre Dame coach, has continued to be a proverbial thorn in his side.

As much as Ohio State's passionate supporters — and some within the media — had written off Day, his family and his team never lost hope.

Following the on-field ceremony for the Buckeyes’ 34-23 win over Notre Dame Monday night, head coach Ryan Day, quarterback Will Howard and linebacker Cody Simon were being driven in a golf cart from the field to the team’s postgame press conference in the bowels of Mercedes Benz Stadium in Atlanta.

Ryan Day rose from the ashes of his darkest hour to lead Ohio State to its first national title in a decade. Michael Cohen details Day's long, painful journey to college football's mountaintop.

Ryan Day deserved to feel vindication when he won a national championship less than two months after it seemed his Ohio State job was on the line.

Even if you subscribed to the theory Ryan Day was born on third base when he got the Ohio State job six years ago, nothing can change the fact he hit a home run Monday night. However much Michigan coach Jim Harbaugh's barb might have stung in 2021 after his Wolverines stunned Day's Buckeyes,

Kirk Herbstreit wasn't able to hold back his emotions after Ohio State won the national championship and later revealed his wife was diagnosed with breast cancer.

Ryan Day silenced the noise Monday night, Jan. 20, with a dominant victory over the Notre Dame Fighting Irish in Atlanta. It marked the ninth national championship for the Ohio State Buckeyes and the first under Day,