{"id":105920,"date":"2025-12-31T06:23:13","date_gmt":"2025-12-31T06:23:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/105920\/"},"modified":"2025-12-31T06:23:13","modified_gmt":"2025-12-31T06:23:13","slug":"ohio-state-players-coaches-speak-at-media-day-ahead-of-cotton-bowl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/105920\/","title":{"rendered":"Ohio State players, coaches speak at Media Day ahead of Cotton Bowl"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Ohio State Buckeyes are set to take on the Miami Hurricanes at AT&amp;T Stadium in Arlington, Texas, on Dec. 31.<\/p>\n<p>DALLAS \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.10tv.com\/article\/sports\/football\/ohio-state-football\/what-channel-is-cotton-bowl-ohio-state-miami\/530-7f92cd8b-7098-4a5a-9345-682e6ef35114\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Ohio State<\/a> coaches and players took part in Media Day on Monday morning ahead of the Cotton Bowl.<\/p>\n<p>Head coach Ryan Day was joined by the other position coaches and all the players to speak about the team&#8217;s matchup with Miami on Wednesday.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Watch Media Day coverage below:<\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday, Day will participate in a joint press conference with Miami head coach Mario Cristobal at 12:30 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>The Ohio State Buckeyes are set to take on the Miami Hurricanes at AT&amp;T Stadium in Arlington, Texas, on Dec. 31.<\/p>\n<p>The No. 2-seed Buckeyes had a first-round bye in the College Football Playoff. The No. 10-seed Miami faced No. 7-seed Texas A&amp;M on Saturday afternoon, taking down the Aggies 10-3.<\/p>\n<p>Day said last week that he will be calling the offensive plays for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.10tv.com\/article\/sports\/football\/ohio-state-football\/ohio-state-football-press-conference-players-coaches-speak-cotton-bowl\/530-756b7aaf-3d4e-4b14-b2ab-a42612deb084\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" id=\"isPasted\">Ohio State<\/a> during the College Football Playoff. Brian Hartline was the offensive play caller during the Buckeyes regular season, but <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/hartline-usf-ohio-state-golesh-4ddf73457b38970debf2e76b9c8d626b\" id=\"isPasted\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">accepted the head coaching position at South Florida<\/a> on Dec. 3. Hartline remains on the Buckeyes&#8217; staff through the CFP and is coaching the wide receivers.<\/p>\n<p>Day said putting together the game plan remains a group effort with co-offensive coordinator\/tight ends coach Keenan Bailey, Carlos Locklyn (running backs), Billy Fessler (quarterbacks) and Tyler Bowen (offensive line) equally involved.<\/p>\n<p>Day called plays on offense the first five years he was Ohio State&#8217;s head coach. He turned over those duties to Chip Kelly in 2024 and gave them to Hartline this season when Kelly left for the NFL.<\/p>\n<p>Ohio State and Miami will kick off at 7:30 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>The winner of the Cotton Bowl will advance to the CFP semifinals at the Fiesta Bowl in Glendale, Arizona, on Jan. 8.<\/p>\n<p>College Football Playoffs Schedule<\/p>\n<p>Quarterfinals (Dec. 31-Jan. 1)<\/p>\n<p>Ole Miss vs Georgia | Sugar Bowl: 8 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 1 | ESPNOregon vs Texas Tech | Orange Bowl: 12 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 1 | ESPNAlabama vs Indiana | Rose Bowl: 4 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 1 | ESPNMiami vs Ohio State | Cotton Bowl: 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Dec. 31 | ESPN                    <\/p>\n<p>Fiesta Bowl: 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 8 | ESPNPeach Bowl: 7:30 p.m. Friday, Jan. 9 | ESPN                    <\/p>\n<p>CFP National Championship<\/p>\n<p>7:30 p.m. Monday, Jan. 19 | ESPNHard Rock Stadium in Miami Gardens, Florida                    <\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2025 Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Ohio State Buckeyes are set to take on the Miami Hurricanes at AT&amp;T Stadium in Arlington, Texas,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":105921,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[150,152,151],"class_list":{"0":"post-105920","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arlington","8":"tag-arlington","9":"tag-arlington-headlines","10":"tag-arlington-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105920","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=105920"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105920\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/105921"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}