Ryan Day enters the 2024 season under more pressure than perhaps every other college football head coach in the country.
After five seasons at Ohio State without a national championship and three straight losses to Michigan, Day is out of excuses. Of course, it didn’t help that Michigan won the national title last season either.
If Day doesn’t win it all, or at least make a run to the championship game of the expanded 12-team playoff, he might be looking for a job elsewhere.
Florida, meanwhile, could be in the market for a new head coach if Billy Napier doesn’t have a big season.
Day spent one season at Florida as a graduate assistant in 2005, but Paul Finebaum doesn’t think he’d go to Gainesville to take over the program even if the opportunity was there.
“No, I don’t,” Finebaum said Monday, via Athlon Sports. “I think Ryan Day is somebody who is either suited for the Midwest or the NFL. I don’t see a scenario where he would come south.”
Day was an NFL quarterbacks coach for two seasons in 2015-16 under Chip Kelly, one year in Philadelphia and one in San Francisco. From there, he moved on to Ohio State, where he worked for two years under Urban Meyer before taking over the program.
Day is 56-8 as head coach of the Buckeyes with three College Football Playoff appearances and two Big Ten titles, but has yet to break through and capture the ultimate prize.
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