Heading into the 2021 season, skeptics were everywhere regarding Jim Harbaugh and his future in Ann Arbor. But after finally beating Ohio State, taking the Big Ten title and making a College Football Playoff appearance, the respect Harbaugh once had has returned.
Tom Fornelli from CBS Sports annually ranks the coaches across the country during the offseason and then divides that into each conference ranking the leaders of each program. For the Big Ten, only one name stands above Harbaugh, and unsurprisingly it is Ryan Day over at Ohio State. Here is what Fornelli had to say about the Buckeyes’ head coach:
Ryan Day (6 overall): Ohio State didn’t win the Big Ten last season, but it’s going to take more than one year without a conference title to knock Ryan Day off his perch in the conference.