Ryan Day tells Colin Cowherd how Ohio State BEAT Arch Manning & Texas | THE HERD College Football

Colin Cowherd is BACK and ready to react to the latest in college and NFL football. Colin is joined by Ohio State head coach Ryan Day to react to the season opener against Arch Manning and Steve Sarkisian’s Texas.

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Welcome to the Herd’s official YouTube channel. Make sure to like and subscribe. Don’t forget to check out the Colin Coward podcast, all of our NFL instant reactions, and more football content. Well, college football delivered in a big way. Notre Dame Miami, Clemson LSU, Ohio State beats Texas. Ryan Day is a busy guy. He always takes time for our show and I’ve told him how much I appreciate that. Seventh season at Ohio State. by the way, is the only active coach with a natty and has won over 85% of his games. So when you hired Matt Patricia, he wasn’t the the bell of the ball and then not everybody was going, “Hey, brilliant hire.” Chip Kelly was different. Everybody’s like, “That’s going to work.” But what did you see with Matt Patricia who’d had a little coaching turbulence? What did you see, Ryan? Because he clearly was a problem for Arch and that Texas offense. Yeah, it’s always great to be on your show, Colin. Thanks for having me. Uh, no, I first off, I’ve known Matt for a while. I know the type of person he is. Uh, he’s he’s a great man. He’s a great husband, uh, great father, and and he really early on built relationships and trust within the building in a short period of time with the staff and and and they, you know, Tim Walton, Merr, Larry Johnson, James Lauronitis, and the players deserve a ton of the credit. But that being said, you know, Matt put it all together and uh, it’s only a start. We got a long way to go, but certainly, you know, for a first game of the year with an inexperienced group going on the field, it it was a good start. You know, it was a weird early start for you. You got pinned deep a couple of times and some Buckeye fans were like, “We gained a couple hundred yards.” But my takeaway was, and I said this from the television set, I could see how uncomfortable Arch Manning was. And I said, “If I was Ryan Day, I would have just I would have gotten on my headset and said, “Guys, this is bad field position. Get out of here. Let’s not take big swings. Did you find yourself because of um the situation you were in offensively that yeah that maybe you did get a little bit more conservative with Julian uh saying your quarterback just because you were pinned but Patricia was giving Arch and Texas fits. Did you find yourself, you know, changing things in game? Yes. Well, we we had a large call sheet and and and on that call sheet was a bunch of different contingency plans. You know, if if you know, it’s a high-scoring game. If we go up by a score, if we go down by a score, um we we felt like um you know, there was a point where we were fairly, you know, in control of the game. We had that long drive. I think we had over eight minutes. We scored. I felt like the defense was playing well and and we were pinned. We got to do a better job of that, you know, in field position. You know, we we have to find ways not to get pinned inside our 10 yard line. now different situation as as you know Julian you know matures you know we’ll we’ll start you know opening it up but we didn’t want to turn the ball over down there and put our defense in a bad spot and that’s one of the first things in our plan to win is play great defense and a part of playing great defense is sometimes making sure you play the field position game now we don’t love that um you know in terms of you know we want to be explosive we want to open this thing up we want to score a ton of points which which you know but at the end of the day the number one goal in a game like this was to win you know I think when you have a player like Jeremiah Smith who is so sensational. Um, and I’ve said this about the NFL sometimes that young quarterbacks, you know, Dak Prescott goes to the Cowboys with Dez Bryant and you want to get him the ball. You feel almost guilty if you don’t. And when you have a player like you guys are basically wide receiver university in America is Ohio State and you have so many gifted receivers and you have such a gifted quarterback. Do you find yourself because I thought your team was very physical and to me Ohio State football is physical football. How do you balance the, you know, we can do fast and finesse. We can be really pretty, but that’s not necessarily what won this weekend. This weekend was toughness and physicality. Is that a tough balance for you with the quality of perimeter stars you have? Well, I think you always have to build an identity with every team that you have and we wanted to build that identity early on. is that we were going to play physical. We were going to play downhill. The running backs were going to get downhill and guys were going to finish around the ball. Um, I think you saw a lot of that. Can we get better? Absolutely. Do we have a long way to go? For sure. Uh, but but I think once you build that foundation with the type of receivers and skill that we have and as the quarterback continues to build confidence, that’s where when you can do both, when you can get ugly fours and you can get dirty and you can score in the red zone and convert on short yardage because it was a short yardage situation. we didn’t we didn’t convert on early in the game. Like we got to do that. Um but then you also can spread it out and get the ball to your playmakers and play in an open game. That’s when you have a chance to win championships and that’s the goal. The goal isn’t just to win the first game. It’s to win championships down the road and build. What is um you know when you hire Chip Kelly who was your longtime friend and you know he brings some NFL but college is different. We saw Bichc struggle last night. Is it um when you listen because you’re you’re the CEO of this program. Um is this going to be a trend? I I like the idea that years ago I felt like college and pro football, Ryan, were totally different sports and I don’t feel like that now. I kind of feel like chip works either way. I’m watching Matt Patricia. That clearly worked. Is do you think this will start a trend? Because I was always kind of cynical on these NFL guys coming to college. They’d be impatient. I don’t know. It feels like it kind of works to me. I think there’s a lot of things that come into play and I I agree with you. I I think that’s absolutely the case. I think the game first off um is much more similar to the NFL now. You know, the hash marks are different and that is significant, but the way the clock moves now after every first down the clock used to stop. Now that only happens inside of two minutes, so the games go quicker. Second thing that’s different is now that we can go coach the player communication, you’re seeing the huddle more. So the games and the number of plays has shrunk way down. And then when it used to be tempo where there was 85 90 plays that that was a different style of game where everything was spread out. I don’t think you’re seeing it as spread out as it used to be. And then and then when you take all the things that are going on off the field with salary caps NIL in terms of you know the way you you you structure your staff uh unlimited coaches. That’s why I think you’re seeing a lot more similarities. Oh and then also the playoffs. I mean that’s different. you know, when you go to the playoffs now, that that’s that you have to be playing your best football at the end of the season where in the past when it was just, you know, a 14 playoff or even before that, that was a whole different dynamic. Well, that was fun to watch. I got to tell you that. Um, it’s 16 new I think you have 16 new starters, don’t you? Was it 16? Yeah. Yeah. We we we last year when we finished the season, I think there was just under 700 starts with the 22 that that started like under their belt. And I think going into this game, we were under 200. So, it was it was significant. Yeah. Hey, congrats. That was fun. It’s always fun to win, but that was really fun. That was a big stage, coach. Congrats. Well, it was good for college football, you know, open up the season like that. The stadium, the atmosphere, it was tremendous. Unbelievable. All the all the big dogs delivered. Uh Ryan Day, Ohio State. Uh congratulate. Oh, by the way, Julian S, one more question because he’s a young kid and I’d only watched them on YouTube. I thought, you know, I I I love the quarterback position. Um the feet, the mechanics. What was your takeaway when it was over? When you’re walking back to the locker room, you put your arm around him. What do you say about his opening performance? I think the first thing is when when you have young quarterbacks, you ask them what what did you see? And when they can come over and tell you what they saw and then you watch the iPad after that drive and it is exactly what he saw, that’s a heck of a that’s a that’s a great start. Like you said, I thought his feet moved well. I thought he was accurate with the ball. He made a couple off-scheduled plays and then he threw the ball away and took care of it when he needed to. Again, all good starts. Long way to go, but we could work with that. Thanks, Ryan. Appreciate it. You got it, Colin. Take care, man.