Down by four points with less than seven minutes remaining in the third quarter, Ohio State faced a fourth-and-5 from the Michigan 43. QB C.J. Stroud wanted to go for it. Ryan Day did not. That’s where this game was lost, writes AriWasserman.
— who could all but taste the Heisman Trophy coming into this game — pleaded for his coach to go for it. The entire football world saw Stroud begging for his coach to put the ball in his hands.Nope. Seemingly without second thought, Day sent on his punt team and took his star quarterback — sure to be a top-five pick in the 2023 NFL Draft — off the field.
”We are always going to be aggressive,” Day said in his postgame news conference, “but at those times, I felt the right thing to do was to punt.”Ohio State has 11 more five-star prospects on its roster than Michigan. It has an 11-slot advantage in the It isn’t fair to compare Day to Cooper yet, especially considering the two Michigan teams that Day has lost to have been very good football teams, College Football Playoff teams. Cooper had considerable talent advantages during his time as the head coach and routinely lost to average Michigan teams.
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