Ohio State fans get it, and the rest of the college football world will too — eventually. When Urban Meyer rode off into the sunset, he literally handed the whistle to an up an coming talent, Ryan Day, that is going to continue to rise the ranks to become a coaching star. He now has some of the respect the OSU brass and supporters knew would come, but he still doesn’t have the namesake others that have won national titles and been around longer do.
Perhaps nobody put it better than where Day lands on the list of best coaches (subscription required) than ESPN’s Adam Rittenberg recently. He came up with his own ranking of the best college football coaches recently and divided them into four tiers.
For a guy like Day who has done a ton of winning since arriving, seems to understand how to do things off the field, and recruits at a high level, reviews are still mixed. After all, he did inherit one of the all-time college football programs that was already winning a bushel of games and trophies.
Still, Rittenberg tried to slate Day into one of his four tiers — and the top one at that — labeled “national contenders.” Here is a ranking of all of those coaches that fell in the top tier and what Rittenberg says about Day[listicle id=91996].