Ryan Day’s Ohio State Buckeyes’ No. 1 rank status this season received a sharp jibe from former UConn Huskies quarterback and college football analyst Dan Orlovsky. The defending champions are on a nine-game winning streak currently and are threatening to go back-to-back with Ryan Day at the helm of the program.
However, Orlovsky mocked Ohio State as the “least tested” No. 1 team in college football history.
“They’re the least tested No. 1 team in the history of college football,” Orlovsky said Thursday. “They’ve played nobody. We have no idea how good Ohio State is down by four in the fourth quarter.”
While Orlovsky might not believe that the Big Ten powerhouse faced the same level of competition as other elite programs in college football, the schedule suggests otherwise. In their 9-0 run, the Buckeyes have defeated ranked programs like Texas while also emerging winners against Penn State, Illinois and other notable programs.
However, Orlovsky might be right in saying what he said because the only currently ranked program Ohio State defeated is Texas. All the rest of their wins came against teams that are currently unranked in the AP Polls.
What Ohio State HC Ryan Day Said Before the UCLA Game
The Ohio State Buckeyes will next face UCLA at home. Despite the nine-game winning streak, Ryan Day is not taking any competition and is treating each game on its merits.
“And so it’s one thing to say, ‘OK, we’ve done X, Y, and Z up until this point,’ but that means absolutely nothing, like zero. We’ve done nothing,” he said after a recent practice. “So I understand everyone’s gonna talk about those things, but none of that has anything to do with what we’re doing moving forward. So if we think that has anything to do with this weekend or where we’re going, then we’re dead wrong. So we have to make sure we all understand that.”
Following the UCLA encounter, the Buckeyes will stay back and host Rutgers before moving to Ann Arbor for the regular season finale against arch-rivals Michigan Wolverines.
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