Sources: Ohio State to hire UCLA coach Chip Kelly as new OC

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UCLA coach Chip Kelly is expected to become the next offensive coordinator at Ohio State, sources told ESPN on Friday. UCLA announced that Kelly is departing the program and that a national search for a new head coach has begun.

Kelly is expected to replace Bill O'Brien, who was named the head coach at Boston College on Friday. Ohio State had hired O'Brien in mid-January as part of head coach Ryan Day's move to no longer call plays and to run the program more holistically.

Ohio State will have to pay a $1.5 million buyout for Kelly, sources said. Kelly is expected to take a pay cut of more than $4 million dollars with the…