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Ryan Day Hints At Michigan Cheating Scandal By Preparing For Ohio State’s Suspicious Power Outage

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Ohio State head coach Ryan Day had an “inkling” that Michigan was going to try and cheat during the rivalry college football game in Ann Arbor on Saturday. Fortunately, the Buckeyes were ready for the shenanigans.

They had a plan already in place just in case exactly what happened was going to happen.

It sounds like the Wolverines were up to no good, which does not come as a huge surprise for a program attached to one of the biggest college football scandals in recent history. Questions remain unanswered.

Ohio State lost power to its communications system.

The Buckeyes finally defeated their biggest rivals for the first time since 2019 on Saturday. Not even a power outage could not stop the top-ranked team in the country during a 27-9 victory at The Big House.

Ohio State repeatedly lost power on its sideline throughout the game.

The lack of electricity interrupted the communications system— both for the coaches and for the players.

As a result of the Connor Stalions scandal, college football coaches are able to communicate with one player on offense (the quarterback) and one player on defense (typically the middle linebacker) until there are 15 seconds left on the play clock. The Buckeyes were often unable to do so because of the power outages. Coaches on the sideline were also unable to speak with the coaches in the box.

It happened more than once.

One particular video from the second half reveals a heated altercation on the visitor’s sideline. A group of coaches in scarlet and grey can be seen arguing with a person of interest wearing blue and maize.

The Michigan staffer’s presence on the Ohio State side of the field raises suspicion.

Why was he there? Did he have something to do with the electricity problems? Neither question has been answered and probably won’t ever be answered but it seems like we can connect the dots.

Ryan Day was prepared for Michigan to cause chaos.

There is a reason why the power outage scandal did not have an impact on the final score of the game. Ohio State was ready.

Head coach Ryan Day had an “inkling” that the headsets might fail.

As a result, the Buckeyes spent Friday preparing for a situation where that would happen. The offensive staff worked on a plan to call plays through a wristband and practiced with quarterback Julian Sayin on how to run plays to the huddle from the sideline. They didn’t know why Day decided to run through this specific scenario but it proved to be extremely valuable on Saturday. He was right!

Watch for the wink!

Michigan has not provided any additional information on why the electricity to the communications system repeatedly failed. I do not expect the Wolverines to do so and they would probably just blame the weather anyway. But if Day was prepared for this exact situation because of an “inkling,” it sounds to me like this was planned in advance. Are we surprised?