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Ohio State Stalled Out in Cotton Bowl, and ‘Fire Day’ Was Trending Mere Minutes Later

Ohio State Buckeyes football coach Ryan Day is on the hot seat in the minds of some college football fans after his team’s Cotton Bowl loss to the Missouri Tigers.

Thomas Neumann

Ohio State Stalled Out in Cotton Bowl, and ‘Fire Day’ Was Trending Mere Minutes Later
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Winning 11 games is considered a successful season most places in the college football world.

Ohio State is not one of those places.

The Buckeyes boast the largest fan base in the country, and  great expectations come with that support. Even though Ohio State went 11–2 this season, you would be hard pressed to find a Buckeyes fan who’s pleased with that result.

That’s because Ohio State suffered a third consecutive loss to archrival Michigan on Nov. 25 and then sputtered its way to a 14–3 Cotton Bowl defeat against Missouri on Friday night.

Ryan Day is 56–8 as head coach of the Buckeyes, but he’s on the hot seat in the minds of some fans and observers. So it shouldn’t be a total shock that “Fire Day” was trending on X, formerly Twitter, mere minutes after the end of Friday’s game.

Screen grab from X denoting trends following the 2023 Cotton Bowl.
Buckeyes coach Ryan Day is on the hot seat in the minds of some fans after his team’s Cotton Bowl loss to Missouri / Screen grab from X on Dec. 29, 2023

College football fans had jokes … and strong opinions.

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