Former Ohio State Buckeyes head coach Urban Meyer, who was in Atlanta on Monday to watch Ohio State win the national championship, came to the defense of current Buckeyes coach Ryan Day.

The Ohio State coach was an assistant under Meyer with the Buckeyes as well as the Florida Gators. Meyer was thrilled to see his former assistant lead Ohio State to another national title. The win over the Notre Dame Fighting Irish marked Ohio State's ninth national championship .

The Ohio State Buckeyes claimed their ninth national championship in program history after beating the Notre Dame Fighting Irish 34-23 on Monday night. However, they still had a few major blemishes during the season. The first was losing to their bitter rivals, the Michigan Wolverines, 13-10 and the second was not winning the Big Ten.

Meyer becomes the eighth coach from Ohio State to be voted into the College Football Hall of Fame joining other Buckeye greats Howard Jones (1910), John Wilce (1913-28), Francis Schmidt (1934-40), Woody Hayes (1951-78), Earle Bruce (1979-87), John Cooper (1988-2000) and Jim Tressel (2001-10).

Former Ohio State coach Urban Meyer knows what it's like to win at the highest level and said Ryan Day could do the same recently.

Co-defensive coordinator with Luke Fickell for Ohio State’s 2014 national champions, Chris Ash helped coach Urban Meyer’s Buckeyes go 26-2 in 2014-15.

How the Ohio State Buckeyes fare in defending their championship is something that will come into focus beginning with the Aug. 30 season opener against Texas.

Tressel, of course, was speaking from experience through the lens of what current coach Ryan Day and his family go through on a weekly basis in Columbus. "The next day they're saying you're horrible and you're really not.

There is a small fraternity of people who understand what it is like to face the pressure-cooker that is being the head coach of Ohio State football.

Takeaways from Ohio State's national championship on Day, a historically great resume, Will Howard, keys to the title run and what's next.

For the first time since the Urban Meyer era, Ohio State is on top of the college football world, thanks to his former assistant Ryan Day and the mettle of the 2024 Buckeyes. While it wasn’t a sure thing,

Urban Meyer led the Ohio State Buckeyes to a national championship in the first year of the College Football Playoff. Two days ago, his former offensive coordinator replicated the feat. Meyer addressed Ryan Day's historic win for the Buckeyes on the latest episode of his The