Former Ohio State Buckeyes head coach Urban Meyer, who was in Atlanta on Monday to watch Ohio State win the national championship, came to the defense of current Buckeyes coach Ryan Day.

The Ohio State Buckeyes claimed their ninth national championship in program history after beating the Notre Dame Fighting Irish 34-23 on Monday night. However, they still had a few major blemishes during the season. The first was losing to their bitter rivals, the Michigan Wolverines, 13-10 and the second was not winning the Big Ten.

The Ohio State coach was an assistant under Meyer with the Buckeyes as well as the Florida Gators. Meyer was thrilled to see his former assistant lead Ohio State to another national title. The win over the Notre Dame Fighting Irish marked Ohio State's ninth national championship .

Meyer becomes the eighth coach from Ohio State to be voted into the College Football Hall of Fame joining other Buckeye greats Howard Jones (1910), John Wilce (1913-28), Francis Schmidt (1934-40), Woody Hayes (1951-78), Earle Bruce (1979-87), John Cooper (1988-2000) and Jim Tressel (2001-10).

Co-defensive coordinator with Luke Fickell for Ohio State’s 2014 national champions, Chris Ash helped coach Urban Meyer’s Buckeyes go 26-2 in 2014-15.

Urban Meyer had his moment to call out the social media mob after Ryan Day led Ohio State to a national championship.

Tressel, of course, was speaking from experience through the lens of what current coach Ryan Day and his family go through on a weekly basis in Columbus. "The next day they're saying you're horrible and you're really not.

Former Alabama Crimson Tide quarterback/current ESPN analyst Greg McElroy made it clear this week how he feels about Ohio State Buckeyes head coach Ryan Day. McElroy is a big, big fan. And he's been a big fan since Day was filling in for Urban Meyer as the interim head coach at Ohio State in 2018.

Ohio State fans weren’t the only ones happy to see Ryan Day finally bring a national championship back to Columbus. Last week, ESPN’s Greg McElroy opened up on his admiration for the Buckeyes’ head coach.

Ohio State coach Ryan Day redeemed himself with a dominant national championship win last week when the Buckeyes trumped the Notre Dame Fighting Irish 34-23 last Monday.

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The Fighting Irish were suffocating defensively under the direction of Golden and head coach Marcus Freeman, finishing fourth nationally in scoring defense and 11th in total defense during their 14-2 run that ended with a 34-23 loss in the College Football Playoff national title game to Ohio State in the title game.