Ohio State has been a different team since Urban Meyer left for the NFL in 2021. During Meyer’s tenure, the Buckeyes won three Big Ten championships, one national championship in 2014, and 7-0 against archrival Michigan.
Under Ryan Day, Ohio State won two Big Ten titles in 2019 and 2020, no national championships, and a 1-3 record against “The team up north”. However, one of the most impressive rosters in college football entering the season could flip this narrative that Day has underwhelmed as head coach.
On his show “Always College Football,” ESPN college football analyst Greg McElroy made an interesting comparison to the Buckeye brand of football.
“{Ohio State} has been a sports car, where winning the Big Ten the past couple of years has a big, diesel vehicle, a ‘dually’ if you will,” McElroy said Wednesday afternoon. “I don’t want to say GMC or Ford because that would tick people off…”
McElroy went on to compare Meyer and Day’s Ohio State teams with how they’ve looked on the field. He said recent Buckeye teams are more “finesse” than the one Meyer had in years past.
Ohio State enters this season with extremely high expectations not only because of their talented roster but also because their archrival Michigan has gotten the best of them in the past three seasons. It certainly doesn’t help that the Wolverines won a national title last year, either.
If Day can’t get the job done a fourth time in a row, especially with “The Game” being in Columbus this year, some hard-hitting questions will need answers.
