Ryan Day went head-to-head with a former coworker on Saturday, and tensions flared in the fourth quarter when Ohio State appeared to call a fake punt while up 39 points late. <\/p>\n
\tJesse Mirco opted to run for a first down on his own accord, Day said after the game, and a late hit on the Buckeye punter by a Rutgers special teams player hurt a kerfuffle on the Ohio State sideline. Rutgers head coach Greg Schiano ran all the way across the field to confront Day, and the pair’s brief verbal spat stole many of the headlines from the 49-10 Buckeye win.\n<\/p>\n
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\t\tRutgers\/Ohio State players and coaches had to be separated on the field after this late hit. pic.twitter.com\/NPZ0lN3lcy<\/a>\n\t<\/p>\n
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\tHowever, Day expressed nothing but respect for Schiano, who coached alongside Day on Urban Meyer’s staff in 2017 and ’18, after the game.\n<\/p>\n
\n\t\t\u201cThey came after the punt and Jesse rolled out to the right. And nothing we had ever worked on, he just saw it and took it. Just being a football player. And then he took that shot on the sideline and things got heated and just, one coach defending their side, one coach defending theirs. \u201d\n\t<\/p>\n
\t\t\u201cNo hard feelings at all. I told him that after the game. I have an unbelievable amount of respect for him. So, that’s all that was.\u201d\n\t<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n
\tDay said he talked to Mirco about his decision after the fact, and that it might not be the last time he discusses the move with Ohio State’s second-year punter.\n<\/p>\n
\n\t\t\u201cYeah, I just grabbed him. I said, ‘What happened?’ And he said, ‘I rolled out to the right,’ he goes, ‘nobody was on me.’ I said, ‘Okay. Anybody tell you to do that? He says, ‘No.’ I said, ‘Okay, we’ll talk about that tomorrow.’\u201d\n\t<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n
\tMuch more instrumental in the Buckeyes’ win was a monster performance on the ground by Miyan Williams, who finished with a career-high 21 carries, 189 yards and an Ohio State single-game record-tying five touchdowns against the Scarlet Knights.\n<\/p>\n
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