As much as Ohio State's passionate supporters — and some within the media — had written off Day, his family and his team never lost hope.

With just seconds left in the National Championship game on Monday night, Ohio State’s head coach Ryan Day was shown running up and down the sidelines, launching his headset into the crowd, and his players holding him to make sure the green-soaked Gatorade bath-filled him from head to toe.

The Ohio State University football coach Ryan Day and his family went through it after the Buckeyes’ brutal loss to Michigan. “We had security at our house,” Ryan’s son, R.J. Day, shared with The Athletic in an interview published Tuesday,