Ryan Day appears on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon
The Ohio State football team arrived in Atlanta on Friday, and it didn’t take long for us to hear from head coach Ryan Day and some of the team. Not only did Day provide some comments directly off the plane on the tarmac — which seems like an odd place to hold a press conference — but he came back on Saturday with some media availability as well.
Even as many Ohio State fans turned on Ryan Day, his players never wavered in their support of the coach who would lead them to the national title.
Day received death threats following a loss to Michigan in November, but on Monday night, he won a national title
Ryan Day got to prove one of his biggest critics wrong in person. Lou Holtz, the last coach to lead Notre Dame to a national championship, was expected to be in attendance Monday night when Ohio State took on the Irish at Mercedes-Benz Stadium.
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.
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.
Ohio State's Ryan Day built a powerhouse national champion with the Buckeyes. Jerry Jones should make him next coach of Dallas Cowboys.
Ohio State coach Ryan Day made it to the promiseland and delivered the Buckeyes their first national title since 2014, but the journey was far from a fairytale, according to his family.
The Ohio State football coach still has a Michigan problem, but a victory against Notre Dame on Monday night would secure the College Football Playoff title.
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.
Thankfully, the golf cart carrying the Ohio State delegation to the media room following their win over Notre Dame in the College Football Playoff championship game wasn't going very fast when it crashed into the wall. Everyone on the cart was perfectly fine. Day's face during the incident, though, said it all.