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Ryan Day says Ohio State football will ‘let it rip’ against Notre Dame
COLUMBUS, Ohio — Prior to Ohio State’s last center-of-college-football kind of game, coach Ryan Day challenged his team to play with a loose, aggressive mindset.
He may also have been challenging himself, and the results showed through when the Buckeyes challenged Georgia to the final seconds of a 42-41 loss.
Day is using very similar rhetoric ahead of No. 6 Ohio State’s game at No. 9 Notre Dame on Saturday.
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Put more bluntly: “We’re gonna let it rip.”
“I think it’s critical,” Day said. “That’s got to be our mentality. We have to go into this environment and embrace it and go get it. Go as hard as we possibly can and not look up at the scoreboard until the fourth quarter.”
Last December, Day made essentially the same declaration coming out of the Michigan loss and ahead of the Peach Bowl playoff semifinal against Georgia. The circumstances that day made it easier to play loose. Ohio State had new life after needing help to even make the playoff. It was the betting underdog and playing in the backyard of its opponent.
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“We’re going to play loose, be aggressive and go at people,” Day said before the Peach Bowl. “There can’t be, moving forward, anybody in our program that presses at all and feels pressure. We’re just going to roll, and I think we can be a dangerous team here in the playoff.”
The words 10 months apart are very similar. We will find out Saturday night if the approach — and the results — match up.
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