Ohio State’s Ryan Day Under Fire for Terrible Reason.
Ohio State · OregonThe Ohio State Buckeyes lost on Saturday to the Oregon Ducks. It was their third defeat of the season, likely knocking them entirely out of the College Football Playoff race.
(Photo by Ben Jackson/Getty Images) Getty But some of the hate for Day has come for a reason that's really hard to justify.
Fans are mad that Day watched his son play high school football the night before the game. Day's son RJ is the senior starting quarterback for Columbus St. Francis de Sales, and RJ's team was playing at the storied Massillon program on Friday in the regional quarterfinal round of the OHSAA postseason.
The game had the potential to be the last one RJ ever played in high school before he goes off to be a quarterback elsewhere in the Big Ten at Northwestern. Day was captured in photographs on the sideline wearing a purple sweatshirt, the color of St. Francis deSales.
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- Ohio State’s Ryan Day Under Fire for Terrible Reason.
- After the defeat, OSU head coach Ryan Day has caught plenty of heat, some of it deserved.
- COLUMBUS, OHIO - NOVEMBER 7: Head Coach Ryan Day of the Ohio State Buckeyes talks with the referees during a timeout in the second quarter of the game against the Oregon Ducks at Ohio Stadium on November 7, 2026 in Columbus, Ohio.
- The facts are this: Day went to Massillon High School in northeast Ohio on Friday night, reportedly by plane, to watch a high school football game.