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Buckeye Talk: Ohio State podcast by cleveland.com

What Ohio State's new offensive coordinater hire says about Ryan Day

Buckeye Talk: Ohio State podcast by cleveland.com

cleveland.com

Sports, Football

4.51.6K Ratings

🗓️ 26 January 2026

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

Ohio State has found its new offensive coordinator in longtime NFL coach Arthur Smith. Stephen Means and Stefan Krajisnik break down the hire and what he brings to the Buckeyes. Thanks for listening to Buckeye Talk and sign up to get text messages from experts Stephen Means, Stefan Krajisnik and Andrew Gillis at 614-350-3315. Get the insider analysis, have your voice heard on the Buckeye Talk podcast and connect with the best Buckeye community out there. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Welcome back to Bucketalk. I'm Stephen Means, and that's Stefan Christnick, and Ryan Day has a new offensive coordinator, and he's from the NFL, and I know him pretty well because I'm an Atlanta

1:41.0

Falcons fan, and so I got the root for him for a couple years. Now I get get to cover him so I'm not really going to be rooting for anybody anymore. Arthur Smith,

1:47.2

long time NFL assistant coach Defoe will take over as the offensive play caller.

1:53.0

This is the third play caller at Ohio said has had since Ryan Day became the head coach.

1:57.5

Chip Kelly obviously did it in 2024 and won a national title.

2:00.5

Ryan Hartline did so in 2024 and won a national title. Brian Hartline

2:01.3

did so last year and beat Michigan, but did not win a national title and did not win the

2:06.8

Big Ten and now it would be Arthur Smith's turn third as many years. This will be his third year

2:11.9

in college football period. He was a North Carolina graduate assistant in 2006, and then in 2010, he was a

2:20.4

defensive intern, essentially an analyst at Ole Miss. Other than that, he has spent his entire

2:26.9

career in the NFL. What do we think of this decision by Ryan Day? And what does it tell us

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