John B’s Sports Blog

By John Brown Dec-22-2025

With Ohio State’s first loss of the season behind them, Ryan Day will be taking over play calling duties from wide receiver coach and offensive coordinator Brian Hartline for the remainder of the playoffs. Hartline will continue as the receivers coach into the Cotton Bowl and will assume the head coach position at the University of South Florida post playoffs. Per Day, tight ends coach Keenan Bailey will also be involved with play calling.

“When you’re not calling it and your eyes aren’t down on the call sheet, your eyes are up,” Day said. “You’re with the defense. You’re watching the offense. You’re watching the other side. You’re watching what’s going on more as opposed to being down on your call sheet. And I think that’s where we’ve got to be good upstairs (in the coaches’ box). And that’s where I really need Kenan and Billy (Fessler) and Tyler (Bowen) and Hart to be on their stuff so that we can move quickly.”