a vote of confidence<\/a>. Day then led his team to four consecutive victories over Tennessee, Oregon, Texas and Notre Dame to win the inaugural 12-team College Football Playoff.\n<\/p>\n\n\tIn his interview with Low, Bjork praised Day for never panicking after the defeat and for rallying Ohio State\u2019s coaches and players to make the title run.\n<\/p>\n
\n\t\u201cIt goes back to you can\u2019t panic in these jobs, and Ryan never did,\u201d Bjork said. \u201cThe players never did, and it\u2019s because of the culture he\u2019s built here. What I\u2019ve kind of analyzed over this last year, really looking at it, is that the secret sauce here at Ohio State, and you can go back to Jim Tressel and Urban Meyer for sure, Woody Hayes too, is can you handle and embrace and not be afraid of the pressure? Coach Day talks about it, that you\u2019ve got to win every game, can\u2019t lose a game around here. Can you embrace that, but also execute it?\n<\/p>\n
\n\t\u201cLook at our playoff run last year. They executed. They said, \u2018This is our game plan. This is who we are.\u2019 How many people can compartmentalize that and say, \u2018Look, we will figure out that (Michigan) game later, but for now, we have to go do this job and we\u2019re going to execute it and win a championship?\u2019\u201d\n<\/p>\n
\n\tDay doesn’t see his experience as compartmentalizing the Michigan loss, but rather as learning from the failure. He hopes the lessons learned will continue to pay dividends as the\u00a02025 Buckeyes look to accomplish their three goals, which are always to beat Michigan, win a Big Ten championship and win a national title.\n<\/p>\n
\n\t\u201cIt\u2019s the job as the head coach to be the leader when things don\u2019t go well, to take on the responsibility of getting it fixed and recognizing that there\u2019ll be enough blame to go around,\u201d Day said. \u201cWe have a culture of good people here. There\u2019s a trust in the building that when things don\u2019t go well, you get them fixed and address them. Everybody has to be on board. We know the stakes are high here at Ohio State. That\u2019s the job, and I think a big part of it all is the type of people that you bring into the building, the type of recruits that you bring in.\n<\/p>\n
\n\t\u201cYou\u2019re going to go on these journeys together, and they\u2019re going to take twists and turns, but everything that I believe in came to fruition last year. It\u2019s about hard work. It\u2019s about fixing the problems. It\u2019s about calling things out that need to get addressed.\n<\/p>\n
\n\t\u201cA lot of those same things are probably coming this year. That\u2019s just the way it goes, and we\u2019re looking to do the same thing again this year.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Matchups with Penn State, Purdue, UCLA and Rutgers separate Ohio State from its season finale against Michigan, but…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":263282,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[399,398,396,397,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-263281","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ncaa-football","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-ncaa","10":"tag-ncaa-football","11":"tag-ncaafootball","12":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263281","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=263281"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263281\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/263282"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=263281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=263281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=263281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}