Day succeeded Urban Meyer as coach in 2019 and has a 70-10 record. His .875 winning percentage is the highest among active coaches. He is one of only three active coaches – Smart and Clemson’s Dabo Swinney are the others – to have won national championships.

Ohio State coach Ryan Day is now the second-highest paid coach in college football behind Georgia's Kirby Smart after paying off his first national championship with a new contract. Day's new seven-year deal,

Weeks after winning the national championship with a historic run through the first year of the expanded College Football Playoff, Ohio State's Ryan Day is now one of the nation's highest-paid coaches.