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Ryan Day suggests moving annual Ohio State-Michigan clash up in the season
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Ryan Day says moving The Game to a different date on the calendar is “worth a long discussion.”
After his trip on the main stage at Big Ten Media Days on Wednesday, Day met with a smaller group of reporters during the breakout section. There, he suggested there could be some value in moving the date of Ohio State’s annual clash with Michigan. With the conference set to undergo serious change over the next year — divisions are finally no more — Day suggested moving the game to avoid a Buckeye-Wolverine matchup in the last week of the regular season leading into a Buckeye-Wolverine matchup in the conference title game.
Ryan Day said he could see The Game moving to a different time in the schedule. “It’s worth a long discussion.”
— Marcus Hartman (@marcushartman) July 26, 2023
OSU coach Ryan Day says with the change in the conference coming up, it’s “worth” discussing moving The Game so they avoid potentially back to back
— angelique (@chengelis) July 26, 2023
The Game was called off in 2020 because of COVID, interrupting a series that had been played every year dating back to 1918. It’s one of the greatest rivalries in sports, and it has been held as the regular-season finale for both teams all but 4 times since 1935.
Moving it up in the calendar would most likely cause controversy. Some would be for the move, while others might point to another tradition that falls by the wayside amid the shifting college football landscape.
Derek Peterson does a bit of everything, not unlike Taysom Hill. He has covered Oklahoma, Nebraska, the Pac-12, and now delivers CFB-wide content.