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Ohio State, Ryan Day Agree to Seven-Year Contract After National Title Win
Ryan Day may have been on the hot seat a couple months ago after Ohio State lost to Michigan for a fourth straight year, but the coach led the Buckeyes to a national title and secured his spot with the program.
Ohio State agreed to a seven-year contract with Day on Thursday, ESPN's Pete Thamel reported. This will keep Day with the Buckeyes through the 2031 season, which is three years longer than what his current contract was set for. The annual salary will be about $12.5 million.
Some analysts did say Day just needed to win a national championship in order to keep his job. They were right.
Ryan Day and Ohio State have agreed to a new contract. It's a seven-year contract that will keep Day as coach of the Buckeyes through the 2031 football season It will add three years onto his current agreement and will be valued at $12.5 million in total annual compensation.
— Pete Thamel (@PeteThamel) February 6, 2025
This agreement may be controversial for Ohio State fans as some are still not on the Day train necessarily. However, it's hard to argue against him after he led the 14-2 Buckeyes to a national title in the first year of the 12-team College Football Playoff format
Now Day has a chance of fulfilling a goal he set for himself, which was to become the first Ohio State coach since Woody Hayes to win multiple national titles at the school. Hayes led the Buckeyes to titles in 1954, '57, '61, '68 and '70. We'll see if Day can accomplish this goal.
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Madison Williams is a staff writer on the Breaking and Trending News team at Sports Illustrated, where she specializes in tennis but covers a wide range of sports from a national perspective. Before joining SI in 2022, Williams worked at The Sporting News. Having graduated from Augustana College, she completed a master’s in sports media at Northwestern University. She is a dog mom and an avid reader.