The OP needs to remember the immortal words of Yogi Berra,”It ain’t over ‘til it’s over”. It is “over” now and tOSU is the National Champion and that QB the Day took a chance on was in fact the team’s QB all season long. Looks like (this time) Day knew what he was doing. Football, like life is indeed fickle. Listening to others accomplishes NOTHING. Having a plan and persuing that plan sometimes leads to great success. And those who have the courage to make a plan and persue that plan and not change course are the real heroes in the world today. In this case, I congratulate Ryan Day for having the balls to stand up to his critics and follow his plan. A lot of coaches have a National Championship as their season’s goal…Day and his Bucks accomplished their goal. (Even though they finished 4th in the conference.)And one COSTLY offseason move turned out to be with what they did at the QB position.
In the offseason, Ryan Day showed starting QB Kyle McCord the door in the favor of a transfer portal option that turned out to be Kansas State QB Will Howard.
McCord landed at Syracuse.
Yesterday, as Will Howard struggled in a loss to Michigan, throwing two costly interceptions, McCord was up in Syracuse out-dueling the nation's best quarterback, Cam Ward, in a thrilling comeback 42-38 win over #6 Miami.
Down 21-0 early in the second quarter, McCord erupted for 380 yards and three touchdowns on 26 of 36 passes.
When asked after the game about beating Miami while his former school Ohio State lost to Michigan yet again, McCord had the perfect response.
"Everything comes full circle," McCord said.
This season McCord passed for 4,326 yards, completed 66% of his passes, and had 29 TDs and 12 INTs for the Orange (9-3).
The Full Story from CBS Sports: 
Ryan Day blew it with Kyle McCord ousting, offensive overhaul that came up short yet again versus Michigan
Fran Brown owes Day a bottle of Dom Perignon after the Buckeyes jettisoned McCordwww.cbssports.com
Current B1G Standings:
Team CONF OVR Oregon 9-0 12-0 Penn State 8-1 11-1 Indiana 8-1 11-1 Ohio State 7-2 10-2
www.thegazette.com
No wonder Kim is cutting Iowa income taxes!From the Gazette in August 2024:
As the Swarm Collective looks to raise funds to compensate Hawkeye athletes via name, image and likeness, Heinrichs said “the price tags keep going up.” It’s at the point now that the men’s basketball price tag is “north of $1 million, closer to $1.5 million,” and football is “around $4 million.”
As ‘price tags keep going up,’ Swarm keeps Iowa competitive in NIL space
Iowa football’s impressive retention of players after the 2023 season “wasn’t going to be possible” without the Swarm Collective.
There were behind the scenes conflicts that pushed Knowles to PSU.
You know what you meant back in December; here's the CBS story you linked: "Ryan Day blew it with Kyle McCord ousting, offensive overhaul that came up short yet again versus Michigan"
True; they could. And if they do, they will earn it.
With the expanded playoff, #6 ranked Ohio State likely would have to beat these 4 teams in order to win the National Championship:
#7 ranked Tennessee (at home)
#1 ranked Oregon (who got a bye) in the Quarterfinals
#3 ranked Texas in the Semifinals
#2 ranked Georgia in the National Championship
$$talks$$
You don't believe that they paid players to stay? THey spent 20 million, that wasn't on 6 portals.
You omitted that OSU "blew" 20million on being national champions along with placing 4th in the BIG. Also, Oregon "blew" 23m on placing 1st in the BIG and bowing out of the CFP in the 2nd round (all but one underdog won during the playoff and that was INdiana).
Yes… but isn’t that the purpose of NIL $$… to procure and keep players in your program?
Nope…
In fairness, tOSU defeated 6 of tge Top 8 rated teams in the nation to win their NC. Give the Devil its due.
A historic run for sure. I would say the best 4 teams were in the same part of the bracket which was a crime against Oregon. They should have gotten Penn St's draw.
"BLEW"You BLEW it with this post.
On Dec 1st, when this thread was started, Ohio State had not yet won the National Championship. Their only "accomplishment" to that point was that 4th place finish in the B1G.
I have brought up several times that Oregon spent/blew $23M on a roster that only advanced to the quarterfinals of the CFP.
| Rank | Team | Seed | REC | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  Oregon * | 1 | B1G | 13-0 | |
| 2 |  Georgia * | 2 | SEC | 11-2 | |
| 3 |  Texas | 5 | SEC | 11-2 | |
| 4 |  Penn State | 6 | B1G | 11-2 | |
| 5 |  Notre Dame | 7 | IND | 11-1 | |
| 6 |  Ohio State | 8 | B1G | 10-2 | |
| 7 |  Tennessee | 9 | SEC | 10-2 | |
| 8 |  Indiana | 10 | B1G | 11-1 | |
| 9 |  Boise State * | 3 | MWC | 12-1 | |
| 10 |  SMU | 11 | ACC | 11-2 | |
| 11 |  Alabama | SEC | 9-3 | ||
| 12 |  Arizona State * | 4 | Big12 | 11-2 | |
| 13 |  Miami | ACC | 10-2 | ||
| 14 |  Ole Miss | SEC | 9-3 | ||
| 15 |  South Carolina | SEC | 9-3 | ||
| 16 |  Clemson | 12 | ACC | 10-3 |
