With college football on the doorstep of further changes to its postseason — including potentially expanded to 14 or 16 teams in 2026 — Ohio State head coach Ryan Day shared what he believes is a “necessity” for the sport moving forward.
Appearing on “The Herd” with FOX’s Colin Cowherd, Day pushed for the Big Ten and SEC to receive multiple automatic bids to the CFP as things continue to shift.
“I think it’s important moving forward with the Playoff system that in the Big Ten and the SEC and as we start to work through this, that we do get automatic qualifiers and a certain amount of automatic qualifiers,” Day expressed. “If we don’t, then you’re never going to see these games scheduled.”
The Buckeyes coach also touched on how he and his program are navigating the other changes across the landscape of CFB.
“There’s still things going on that I throw my hands up right now. There’s so many changes. I think about the NIL, the transfer portal, the conference realignment with 18 teams, so now in the Big Ten we travel to the West Coast. Then you have the playoff change. Those are just four things that have all happened. Those are, like, major, major changes,” Day said.
“So you just had to be comfortable being uncomfortable and solving it. Because nobody cares. There’s all kinds of things that happened in the last month or so after our game that nobody cares about. What matters is putting your talent acquisition on the field and putting a team together,” he concluded. “As much, though, as things have changed, I felt with this team, it was about the timeless principles of hard work, sacrifice, loyalty and resilience that separated us.”
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Ohio State had to be resilient after the Michigan loss where people were burying their team (and their coach). But they turned things around in about as big a way as anyone could’ve imagined and they deserve all the props in the world for it.
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