Ohio State head coach Ryan Day speaks to fans at the College Football Playoff National Championship celebration at Ohio Stadium on Jan. 26, 2025.

Ryan Day rose from the ashes of his darkest hour to lead Ohio State to its first national title in a decade. Michael Cohen details Day's long, painful journey to college football's mountaintop.

Instead of a smooth ride through the tunnels at Mercedes-Benz Stadium in Atlanta on Monday night, Ohio State coach Ryan Day found himself in a precarious situation. Day and several others were on a golf cart that crashed while trying to make a turn that it just absolutely could not make — which made for a pretty hilarious scene after their national championship victory.

Now that he has won a national championship at Ohio State, it's time for Ryan Day to leave for the NFL to escape the toxic environment in Columbus.

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.

Ohio State coach Ryan Day celebrated his team after the Buckeyes captured the 2025 College Football Playoff National Championship with a 34-23 win over Notre Dame on Monday. Despite losing a pair of regular-season games,

Those narratives seem silly now, even preposterous. That loss to Michigan at The Horseshoe feels like an eternity ago.

Day earned the right to call himself an Ohio State legend last night by joining a table that includes Paul Brown, Woody Hayes, Jim Tressel and Urban Meyer. No matter what happens next, this will be a shining moment for which he’ll be remembered for the rest of his life.