Top 25
23-11
- Games
- 34
- Win rate
- 67.7%
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Ryan Day
2018-2025 • Ohio State
One defining program at Ohio State.
Ryan Day's coaching record is 82-12, highlighted by seasons at Ohio State from 2018 to 2025.
Ryan Day coached 8 seasons, won 87.2%, and posted an average SRS of 23.8. Best season: 2019 Ohio State. The profile was balanced with a very steady week-to-week shape. One primary stint defined the run.
- Career record
- 82-12
- Career win rate
- 87.2%
- Average SRS
- 23.8
- Peak SRS
- 32.8
Career Dossier
One glance at the full arc.
The profile below keeps the headline numbers visible, then moves into tenure shape, school impact, and full season detail.
- Seasons coached
- 8
- Career span
- 8 years
- Best finish
- #1
- Consistency
- 83.2
Primary school anchor
Ohio State
Balanced profile with 1 program stop and a peak score of 98.0.
Quick Answers
Records fans search first
Headline records use countable season rows after completed-game fallback. Partial seasons and provisional placeholders are called out separately.
- Overall record
- 82-12
- Ohio State record
- 82-12
- Full-season record
- 67-10
- Partial-season record
- 3-0
- Vs AP Top 10
- 14-10
- Vs AP Top 5
- 6-8
- Vs Michigan
- 2-4
- Postseason / bowl record
- 6-5
- CFP record
- 5-4
- National titles
- 1
94 countable games, 87.2% win rate.
8 countable seasons at Ohio State.
6 full season rows; partial and backfilled current rows are separated.
Rows where the coach-season record covers fewer games than the team's completed season.
24 games using AP ranking at game time.
14 games using AP ranking at game time.
The Game games in this dataset.
11 scored postseason games in this dataset.
9 College Football Playoff-labeled games since 2014.
Matched by coach team-season against the national championship dataset.
Record definition and data status
Career records use countable coach-season rows. Zero-game placeholders are excluded from aggregates until a completed-game fallback can verify the record.
Completed-game fallback uses scored games joined by coach, team, and season; advanced ratings are left blank when the season summary has not supplied them.
Latest completed coached game in this dataset: Jan 1, 2026. At least one season record was backfilled from completed games, so current-season totals may move as more scores are loaded.
Career Arc
Track how the coach's season-to-season performance changed over time, where the peak landed, and where each school stint appears.
Focus on where peaks separate, where floors hold, and how the shape of each career changed over time.
Ryan Day
EliteStrongAverageLean
2018Actual season year • SRS range 18.1 to 32.82025
Active comparison point
Ryan Day • 2019
2019 Ohio State
Best seasonBiggest improvement13-1 • SRS 32.8 • SP Overall 35.4
Win %
92.9%
YoY SRS
+14.7
SP Off / Def
44.4 / 10.6
Finish
#3
Comparison context
Focus a point to inspect how it stacks up against the rest of the field.
Ranked opponent record
Track career record against ranked opponents with switchable poll source and ranking timing.
Using AP Top 25 rankings at the time of each game; week-one games use the week-one ranking release when available.
Top 10
14-10
- Games
- 24
- Win rate
- 58.3%
Top 5
6-8
- Games
- 14
- Win rate
- 42.9%
View ranked game results34
Tenure map
Each stint expands by seasons coached. Deeper color signals a stronger average SRS over that stretch.
Length = seasons coachedDeeper color = stronger stint
Ohio State
2018-2025 • 8 seasons
Avg SRS 23.8 • Win % 87.2%
- Longest tenure
- Ohio State • 8 seasons
- Best tenure
- Ohio State • 23.8 SRS
- Best tenure win rate
- Ohio State • 87.2%
Style and Strength Profile
Compare strength, identity, steadiness, and ceiling through normalized bars with raw SP and SRS context underneath.
These bars are normalized against the full coach dataset. Raw SP and SRS values stay visible so the profile reads as evidence, not decoration.
Overall Strength
Start with total quality before splitting style and variance.
Ryan Day sets the reference point in overall strength.
Overall Strength
Decisive edgeRyan Day sets the reference point in overall strength.
Normalized score; raw SP overall stays underneath for reference.
Ryan Day
Elite
- Raw avg SP Overall
- 29.4
- Percentile
- 100th pct
Elite
Normalized against the full tracked coach pool.
Impact by school
See how each stint compared with what that program usually looked like outside that same span.
Ohio State
2018-2025 • 82-12
Compared with this school's baseline outside that stint over the prior 5 seasons (5 baseline seasons found).
Avg SRS 23.8Win % 87.2%
Avg wins
Higher is better
11.3 during vs 12.2 baseline
-0.9
Avg SRS
Higher is better
24.6 during vs 22.8 baseline
+1.9
Avg SP Overall
Higher is better
30.1 during vs 27.4 baseline
+2.7
Ranked finish rate
Higher is better
85.7% during vs 100.0% baseline
-14.3%
Career highs and lows
High Points
Best Season
Ohio State 2019
13-1 • SRS 32.8
Biggest Improvement
Ohio State 2019
13-1 • 14.7 SRS
Best Offensive Season
Ohio State 2021
11-2 • SP Off 47.2
Best Defensive Season
Ohio State 2025
12-2 • SP Def 7.7
Setbacks
Lowest SRS Season
Ohio State 2018
3-0 • SRS 18.1
Biggest Drop
Ohio State 2020
7-1 • -11.2 SRS
Season-by-season results
Full transparency into every season in the coaching record. Positive YoY values indicate improvement from the prior season.
| Ohio State | 2025 | 14 | 12 | 2 | 0 | 85.7% | — | — | 26.6 | 30.1 | 37.6 | 7.7 | +2.0 | -1.8% | Completed-game fallback |
| Ohio State | 2024 | 16 | 14 | 2 | 0 | 87.5% | #2 | #1 | 24.6 | 31.2 | 39.5 | 9.2 | +1.2 | +2.9% | Season summary |
| Ohio State | 2023 | 13 | 11 | 2 | 0 | 84.6% | #3 | #10 | 23.4 | 25.2 | 31.5 | 7.8 | +0.9 | 0.0% | Season summary |
| Ohio State | 2022 | 13 | 11 | 2 | 0 | 84.6% | #2 | #4 | 22.5 | 31.1 | 45.1 | 15.7 | +1.5 | 0.0% | Season summary |
| Ohio State | 2021 | 13 | 11 | 2 | 0 | 84.6% | #4 | #6 | 21.0 | 29.3 | 47.2 | 20.6 | -0.6 | -2.9% | Season summary |
| Ohio State | 2020 | 8 | 7 | 1 | 0 | 87.5% | #2 | #2 | 21.6 | 28.4 | 45.3 | 16.7 | -11.2 | -5.4% | Season summary |
| Ohio State | 2019 | 14 | 13 | 1 | 0 | 92.9% | #5 | #3 | 32.8 | 35.4 | 44.4 | 10.6 | +14.7 | -7.1% | Season summary |
| Ohio State | 2018 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 100.0% | #5 | — | 18.1 | 24.1 | 44.4 | 21.2 | — | — | Partial season |
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Statistical comps
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