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Ryan Day wants College Football Playoff changes after Ohio State's title
The Buckeyes coach offers solutions to the expanded playoff.
College Football Playoff changes are coming, but Ohio State coach Ryan Day offered an alteration this week that goes beyond the games and enhances the experience for the players. Day and the Buckeyes waltzed through the first year of the expanded playoff with multiple convincing wins as an at-large selection, yet something felt off leading up to the national championship."First off, the experience is something we really got to learn from," Day said on the "Triple Option" podcast this week. "You know, I think that the player experience can be much better. I think that the focus needs to be on the players, and I think we need to look at a lot of it. Because, you know, the national championship is not run by a bowl.
"The other ones are but, even the ones that are run by a bowl, as you guys remember, there used to be events. There was a lot that came with that. Now that's no longer the case."
Day said the CFP has become formulaic and with no special offerings for players prior to kickoff like other bowl events.
"It's just like being on a road game, except you're there a day earlier, but there's no events like nobody going on any events, nobody's leaving the hotel," Day said. "I think that, you know, we need to consider moving the hotels outside of these big cities, because we're not going to these events anymore. So I think being a little bit more secluded and looking at some of those locations is just better for everybody, especially for the players. We need to pour it into the players.
"These are the guys that are doing the work. So I think that we need, you know, the best food there is that could possibly serve these guys. I think it should be the best conditions. I think we should try to find as many mementos for these guys that possibly can be done, just little things that money can't buy, but it stays with them forever."
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