Ryan Day’s Tenure: The Rarest Win in College Football Isn’t on the Scoreboard

Ohio State head coach Ryan Day | Photo by Adam Cairns/Columbus Dispatch/USA Today Network/Imagn Images
June 23, 2026

Getting the internal hire right is harder than any game the Buckeyes have ever played. Ryan Day and Ohio State made it look routine. There is a version of the Ryan Day story that gets told often, and it goes something like this: Ohio State had a good thing going, Urban Meyer stepped away, the program handed the offense to the next man in line, and the machine kept running….

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Buckeye State of the Union: Ohio State is 10 Wins from History, Chasing No. 1,000

Ohio State Buckeyes head coach Ryan Day leads the first day of spring workouts for the 2026 football season at Woody Hayes Athletic Complex in Columbus on March 10, 2026.z | Adam Cairns/Columbus Dispatch / USA TODAY NETWORK via Imagn Images
May 25, 2026

Ohio State football enters 2026 on the doorstep of a milestone only one program has ever reached. The Buckeyes will likely win their 1,000th game this fall, so here’s when it could happen.  Ohio State football started in a meadow in Delaware, Ohio, on a May afternoon in 1890. Weeks prior, an undergraduate named George Cole had persuaded Alexander Lilley to coach a football team at The Ohio State University….

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