Ryan Day says Ohio State will evaluate everything after loss to Oregon

Ryan Day was asked at his postgame news conference Saturday night where the Ohio State Buckeyes go from here, with a 41-28 home loss to the Oregon Ducks having just handed him the first three-loss season of his eight years in charge.

The question noted that a Big Ten title and a College Football Playoff berth now look like long shots, and Day accepted the premise.

“Not someplace we thought we’d be. Beyond disappointed. We understand what the expectations are. It’s the like first thing when you walk into the Woody, you join our program, you understand what the expectations are. The expectation is to win every game here. To lose three games is unacceptable, and I own that. That’s never going to change from my point of view… Now we got to weather this storm, something that none of us are used to,” Day said.

Ryan Day: “The expectation is to win every game here, so to lose three games is unacceptable. And I own that.”

“Now we got to weather this storm, something that none of us are used to.” https://t.co/zFEhCxgB8Y

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The defeat guaranteed Ohio State three losses on or before Nov. 7 for the first time since Luke Fickell’s interim season in 2011, CBS Sports pointed out. It came a week after a 30-18 loss at USC, and the first of the three came against the Texas Longhorns.

Ohio State led 14-0 after the first quarter. Oregon then scored 38 straight points, a run that included a fake punt Dan Lanning called on fourth-and-10 from the Oregon 37 and an interception thrown by freshman Luke Fahey late in the first half.

Fahey, starting since Julian Sayin’s elbow fracture, finished with 360 passing yards, and Ohio State outgained Oregon on the night, but the Buckeyes ran for 53 yards on 21 carries and failed on all four of their fourth-down tries.

Where Ohio State goes with three games left

Day was also asked why the messages he delivers to his team each week have not held up in the losses. He pointed the answer back at himself and the people around him.

“I’ve got to evaluate everything, come in tomorrow, and figure out with the staff the things we’re coming up short on and figure out how to adjust those things. It all starts with the staff and then goes to the players. There needs to be accountability for all of it” Day Said.

Day added that something has to change after back-to-back losses to USC and Oregon. “We’ve got to look at all those things and figure out what that is,” he said.

That evaluation will cover a quarterback plan that has left a freshman in charge since Sayin’s injury, and it runs on a short clock. Ohio State, now 6-3, hosts the Northwestern Wildcats next, travels to play the Nebraska Cornhuskers and closes the regular season against the Michigan Wolverines, who lost at home to Michigan State on Saturday.

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