Dave Portnoy demands Ryan Day apology from Columbus

Ohio State has now lost back-to-back games for the first time since 2011. Nobody was waiting for that more than Portnoy, and he went on the Monday show to collect.

Dave Portnoy

@stoolpresidente

I want an apology from every single person in Columbus who said I was wrong about Ryan Day

The game itself is what makes the gloating sting. Ohio State was up 14-0 late in the 1st quarter. Then Oregon scored on 4 of its next 5 drives, and a fake punt helped flip the game. The Buckeyes fell to 6-3, which is the first 3-loss season of the Day era. It was also their 2nd straight double-digit loss, something that hadn't happened in Columbus in 22 years. True freshman Luke Fahey started again at quarterback in place of an injured Julian Sayin. That's a real excuse, but nobody in Ohio is in the mood for it.

Things looked very different 2 weeks ago. During the Wake Up Barstool College Football Playoff talk on October 26, the crew treated Ohio State as the safe pick in the Big Ten picture.

Wake Up Barstool

@wakeupbarstool

“We know that Ohio State has the inside lane. Go look at the standings.”

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That inside lane is gone. First came a 30-18 loss at USC on Halloween, and Portnoy called Day 'trash' who was 'torpedoing the program.' He also said Ohio State fans would one day thank him for exposing Day's big-game ineptitude. A week later the Ducks did it again in Ohio Stadium. Now Ohio State is looking at long odds for an at-large playoff spot or a Big Ten title game, even if it wins out.

For Portnoy this is personal, not just Michigan-fan trolling. He has said publicly that Ohio State and Day were behind his removal from Fox's Big Noon Kickoff. Buckeye fans spent the fall telling him he was bitter and wrong. Two straight losses later, he's the one asking for apologies. Michigan didn't come out of the weekend clean either: Wake Up Barstool also reported that the Wolverines fired offensive coordinator Jason Beck.

Day's postgame message was that his team has to 'weather this storm,' and he called the spot 'not someplace we thought we'd be.' He has 3 regular-season games left to change the story before The Game. If he loses that one too, the line of people apologizing to Portnoy is going to get a lot longer.