Ryan Day should resign from his position tonight

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. (Photo by Ben Jackson/Getty Images) | Getty Images As Ohio State sorts through the wreckage of a blowout loss at home to an Oregon team that is also missing its starting quarterback, one thing is clear for the Buckeyes: Ryan Day’s time in Columbus is coming to a close.The powers that being most likely aren’t going to make the move tonight, and they probably won’t even do it this season, but the current head coach is clearly in over his head, and the program is in the worst state it has been in at least the last 20 years. Ohio State moved to 6-3 on the year with a 41-28 loss to Oregon on Saturday, and the Buckeyes still have three tough games remaining against a Chip Kelly-led Northwestern, a road trip to Nebraska and a rivalry game against Michigan to end the season. All of the Buckeyes’ goals for 2026 are completely out the window. There will be no College Football Playoff, there will be no Big Ten title, and if they continue along their current path, there will be no victory over the team from Ann Arbor. It is a completely lost season, and it is only Nov. 7. Ohio State had two weeks to prepare for USC, and they responded with one of the worst offensive performances we have seen out of the Buckeyes in the Ryan Day era. They then returned home to host Oregon with their backs against the wall, and proceeded to turn a 14-0 lead into a 13-point loss. This team has given us very little reason to think they will turn things around, either. The offense has been anemic under backup quarterback Luke Fahey, and made even worse by the coach staff’s decision to stray away from Jeremiah Smith for huge chunks of games. The defense, which had been mostly solid through the first seven games of the season, has completely fallen apart. The special teams, which has always been terrible under Day, has remained terrible. What, exactly, do the Buckeyes have to hang their hat on as they look to finish out the rest of the regular season?There isn’t a single area this season where Ohio State excels. The passing game looks lost without Julian Sayin, the running backs can’t do anything behind a dreadful offensive line, and the defense is seemingly getting worse by the week. It has been a complete coaching failure from top to bottom. The Ryan Day that Ohio State hired in 2019 is dead and gone. The man who led the Buckeyes with dynamic high-flying offenses and elite quarterback play is now struggling to put up points with the best player in program history at wide receiver. In his place is a man who has turned Ohio State into a boring NFL team. The Buckeyes do nothing creative on either side of the ball, led by two former NFL coordinators in Arthur Smith on offense and Matt Patricia on defense. Patricia has been exposed as a fraud after benefiting from the likes of Caleb Downs, Arvell Reese and Sonny Styles in his first season at Ohio State. The Buckeyes’ defense has been gashed in both the ground game and through the air, failing to get pressure on opposing quarterbacks and routinely rushing three in obvious passing downs despite not having the players in the secondary to make up for it. Arthur Smith has failed to solve any of the issues that have plagued Day’s offenses over the last several years despite numerous coordinator and personnel changes. The Buckeyes remain incompetent in the red zone, fail to get to the ball its generational star, and load up terrible tight ends at every possible opportunity. Day’s issues don’t stop at his coordinator hires. Beyond those two is a coaching staff with virtually zero redeemable assistants, outside of maybe James Laurinaitis and Matt Guerrieri at linebacker and safety, respectively. The offensive issues have been compounded by one of the worst offensive braintrusts in America. Tyler Bowen is the worst offensive line coach money could by, and should never have been hired in the first place with a resume not nearly befitting of an Ohio State offensive line coach. Keenan Bailey is a glorified intern that has turned the tight end room into an island of misfit toys. Carlos Locklyn and Cortez Hankton have done nothing to elevate the play of their respective rooms. The defense doesn’t get any better, either. Larry Johnson is so far past his prime up front, as Ohio State’s defensive line couldn’t generate pressure on opposing quarterbacks if they were going up against actual traffic cones, and Tim Walton’s corners completely fall apart the second freshman Jay Timmons comes off the field. Don’t even get me started on the special teams, where Robby Discher is doing as bad a job — if not somehow even worse — as Parker Fleming before him. This coaching staff needs a complete reset. The next head coach needs to tear this thing down to the studs, including Mark Pantoni, who does not escape criticism for this poor roster he has helped put together. “When it’s time to turn up the gas, we will.” Ryan Day uttered those words nearly a year ago when people asked if Ohio State would be able to score enough points on offense when the competition got tougher. Now, having lost five of their last nine games against P4 opponents, we are still waiting to see those words turned into action. A 6-5 stretch for the Buckeyes is nearly unfathomable for a program like Ohio State under any circumstances. Regardless of the situation, a record that poor extending across two seasons is a five-alarm fire. It feels as though Ohio State under Day has hit rock bottom. The coaching staff is terrible from top to bottom, and the level of talent in Columbus is not at a high enough level to overcome the shortcomings of its leadership.There is a very real chance that the lame duck head coach will drop at least one more game this season, and will be threatening to lose his fifth game to Michigan in seven tries in the regular season finale. Is an 8-4 season (or worse!) and missing a 12-team College Football Playoff what Ohio State envisioned when Day got the job in 2019? Things have taken a real turn for the worse, and it is time for change.