While meeting with the media on Monday, Ohio State football head coach Ryan Day named the starting quarterback for the start of the 2025 season.

It's been 2,087 days since Ohio State last beat Michigan, and that fact is never far from Ryan Day's mind. The countdown clock has been ticking inside the Woody Hayes Athletic Center since that inexcusable loss last November,

For as great as Ryan Day has been since taking over for Urban Meyer at Ohio State, his record vs. Michigan in The Game continues to haunt him. The Buckeyes are riding a four-game losing skid to The Team Up North — which had largely ruined OSU's national championship hopes up until last year.

The team read “Chop Wood Carry Water” in the lead-up to training camp. Players read a chapter a day, with TV monitors in the football facility displaying the one currently assigned. Then the team gathered daily while a player, coach or trainer explained what the chapter meant to them.

This article was originally published on www.si.com/college/ohiostate as Analyst Explains Why There's Pressure On Ohio State To Get QB Competition Right . This is a huge fall camp period for Ryan Day and the No. 3-ranked Ohio State Buckeyes.

Ryan Day, Urban Meyer, Jim Tressel and more detail the factors that have kept Ohio State around the top of college football for decades.

Haskins and Burrow squared off in 2018. Haskins would end up winning the job, prompting Burrow’s decision to transfer to LSU. He would eventually go on to lead the Tigers to a national championship in 2019, winning the Heisman Trophy along the way.

The Ohio State Buckeyes have been chasing elite pass-rushing prospects for years but have struggled to close the deal. As the NIL market changes, the Buckeyes have found it easier to bring in veterans from the transfer portal than spend on a single big name who needs years to develop or may not