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- Ohio State
- Updated: Dec. 29, 2025, 11:43 a.m.
- Published: Dec. 29, 2025, 11:38 a.m.
ARLINGTON, Texas — Ohio State shot coach Ryan Day is preparing for a College Football Playoff quarterfinal matchup pinch Miami successful AT&T Stadium.
But 1,100 miles distant — arsenic it prepares for a Citrus Bowl matchup pinch Texas successful Orlando — his biggest rival has a caller coach.
Kyle Whittingham, nan erstwhile longtime Utah coach who went head-to-head pinch Day successful nan 2022 Rose Bowl, is now astatine nan helm for Michigan.
“We’ve been focused connected this game, really,” Day said Monday during Cotton Bowl Media Day. “Had nan acquisition successful nan Rose Bowl. That acquisition was great. He was a gentleman.”
Whittingham became Utah’s caput coach up of nan 2005 play erstwhile he was promoted to switch Urban Meyer.
He had been pinch nan Utes ever since until stepping down earlier this month. Whittingham’s travel is comparable to Day’s.
Day worked arsenic a postgraduate adjunct astatine Florida successful 2005 — Meyer’s first play pinch nan Gators. After various stints astatine nan collegiate level and successful nan NFL, Day reconnected pinch Meyer astatine Ohio State successful 2017.
Two years later, Day was promoted to caput coach.
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