Ohio State coach Ryan Day watched as Michigan planted its flag at midfield inside the Horseshoe, chaos ensuing: fans chanting "F--- Ryan Day," his players both fighting back and walking around dazed,

This has been a season unlike any other for Ryan Day emotionally. Less than two months ago, loud and influential media voices were calling for the firing of the nation’s winningest active coach in the wake of Ohio State’s fourth straight loss to Michigan.

Those narratives seem silly now, even preposterous. That loss to Michigan at The Horseshoe feels like an eternity ago.

A Buckeyes win would give the Big Ten back-to-back national champions for the first time since 1942, when the league was called the Western Conference. Paul Brown-coached Ohio State went 9-1 that year and was the third straight national champion from the conference. Voters crowned Minnesota in 1940 and ’41.

A young Ohio State fan has brought together Buckeyes and Volunteers fans alike in a heartwarming effort to support his family. Clark Willmore, a 4-year-old from

Columbus, Ohio, attorney and former state Sen. Ben Espy will be remembered at a service for his decades of service to the state and city.

In routs of Oregon and Tennessee, the Buckeyes blitzed quarterbacks ... s on the line and you do have that extra gear.” Joey Kaufman covers Ohio State football for The Columbus Dispatch. Follow him on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter,@ ...

Owned by Burke Racing Stable, Weaver Bruscemi, Hatfield Stables, and Knox Services, Tennessee Tom hit the board nine times this season, making $294,530. He won the James K. Hackett Memorial at Miami Valley Raceway, three legs of the Ohio Sires Stakes, and the $142,000 Ohio State Fair Stakes.

JD Vance, an Ohio native with strong ties to Columbus, will be sworn in as vice president Monday. Vance, the now-former senator from Ohio who was tapped as presidential candidate Donald Trump's running mate this summer, grew up in Middletown, Ohio, as he details in his 2016 book "Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis ."

The Ohio State football season is almost over, win or lose, and there is a small cadre of fans who have been to every, or almost every, playoff game.

Ohio State fans have complicated feelings toward Day, who has lost four straight to Michigan but is one win away from a national title.

Some of the legendary coaches' philosophies — including game plans, practice plans and training — have rubbed off on Vrabel.