Some Bucks fans are crazier than your most unpredictable group chat friend. This entire ‘Fire Ryan Day’ chant has to be thrown out the window. They got on that playoff ground with everything stacked against them and everyone doubting them and still managed to blow the Vols out. “He gets you right on the verge every single season,” and still, the fans cry wolf. Like why? Yeah, he lost to UM, but he is in the semi-finals. Ryan Day has done everything right this year. With that win over Tennessee and cruising into another showdown against the Ducks, this has to be one of the best seasons for the Buckeyes. So, tell us why, when you ask a Bucks fan how they would feel if OSU won the natty, they responded with “A natty winner but with an asterisk”?

“These Ohio State fans have got a psychotic obsession with Michigan,” Nick Saban explained it perfectly back on the Pat McAfee show. That asterisk is the Michigan loss. See, we agree. Day should’ve won that. Michigan had no one. Sherrone Moore and Co. were just “getting by” with a walk-on quarterback and a backup QB who can’t even throw the football toward the correct target. But when you take that and put it on the scale against the fact of OSU’s crushing victory over the Vols, don’t you think the Michigan angle starts looking a bit weak? Chip Kelly made a huge mistake in that game.

The play-calling was all wrong. Instead of relying on that picture-perfect OSU run game we had all become accustomed to, they tried to out-physical a very physical Michigan team. Hence, the loss and the UM flag being planted on the Buckeyes’ home turf. But Day learned from his mistakes.

Once again, when he had to face another physical team, Day and Kelly completely relied on the run game. And look at the magic it did! Over 300 yards in passing and 156 in rushing. Will Howard was throwing dimes, and almost every single one of them was on the spot. He just missed out on 5 total shots out of the 29 he took. Also, Jeremiah Smith, TreVeyon Henderson, and Quinshon Judkins were on fire.

2 touchdowns from each of them is wild. A Vols team who had already dealt with a running game madness from Alabama had no answer for what Day and Kelly cooked up for the playoff game. This is arguably some of the best football the Bucks have put out, and fans should be happy about it instead of forcing Day to take serious action.

Death threats from OSU fans

“It’s one of the worst things that’s happened to me in my life, quite honestly.” Leaving the Buckeyes stadium, Day was in massive distress. Not only were the fans mad, but they were flinging out death threats like free newsletters in your email.

This entire scenario forced Day to resort to bringing in armed security guards to protect himself and his players. Imagine fans making you resort to the extremes. Kirk Herbstreit was right about the OSU fans. “Fringe fans“ and nothing more.

These people gotta learn that blowouts happen, and you cannot do much about it instead of learning from it. Ryan Day did it and hence why the Bucks are still in running for the natty.