Ohio State first-year athletic director Ross Bjork wasn’t the one who hired Ryan Day as the school’s head football coach. However, he firmly attached himself to Day in late November when he reaffirmed the Buckeyes wouldn’t make a coaching change after a fourth straight loss to Michigan.

Finebaum, who has openly admitted that the Big Ten's time has finally arrived in the wake of back-to-back seasons without an SEC national champion, said the loss to the Wolverines was critical for Day and the team to have a complete reassessment.

Even as many Ohio State fans turned on Ryan Day, his players never wavered in their support of the coach who would lead them to the national title.

Ohio State head coach Ryan Day caught extreme heat for losing a fourth-straight game to the Michigan Wolverines in late November, but that moment proved to be a turning point for the program en route to winning a National Championship.