Why Ohio State football’s Ryan Day isn’t a top-tier coach in CFB
As Ohio State football head coach Ryan Day has integral decisions to make ahead of the 2025 season, the goal is to repeat the success the program had last year, which culminated in winning a national championship. While the Ohio State football team’s ranking in the AP Top 25 list will be hotly debated, the ranking of Day will also result in massive discourse.
In The Athletic’s latest list ranking every head coach in the Football Bowl Subdivision into eight different tiers and while some would expect Day to be in the first coming off a national title, he was not. Only two coaches were in the first tier, being Georgia’s Kirby Smart and Clemson’s Dabo Swinney.
Chris Vannini would express how Day’s placement on the rankings was hard and that the struggles against Michigan and the inability to overcome as underdogs went into being in the second tier.
“Ryan Day was the toughest coach to place on this list. He just won a national championship at Ohio State, but that is expected in Columbus; his two most recent predecessors won titles, too,” Vannini wrote. “The criticism of Day starts with his four consecutive losses to Michigan, plus his 1-4 record as a betting underdog.
Chris Vannini would express how Day’s placement on the rankings was hard and that the struggles against Michigan and the inability to overcome as underdogs went into being in the second tier.
“Ryan Day was the toughest coach to place on this list. He just won a national championship at Ohio State, but that is expected in Columbus; his two most recent predecessors won titles, too,” Vannini wrote. “The criticism of Day starts with his four consecutive losses to Michigan, plus his 1-4 record as a betting underdog.
