Who is the head coach of the Ohio State Buckeyes football team?
List of Ohio State Buckeyes head football coaches
[[File:Ryan Day in 2017.jpg|right|200px|thumb|[[Ryan Day]], head coach of the Ohio State Buckeyes from since 2019
The [[Ohio State Buckeyes football|Ohio State Buckeyes]] [[college football]] team represents the [[Ohio State University]] in the East Division of the [[Big Ten Conference]]. The Buckeyes compete as part of the [[NCAA Division I Football Bowl Subdivision]]. The program has had 24 coaches since it began play during the [[1890 Ohio State Buckeyes football team|1890 season]]. The Buckeyes have played over 1,200 games over 125 seasons. In those seasons, eight [[Head Coach|head coaches]] have led the Buckeyes to postseason bowl games: [[John Wilce]], [[Wes Fesler]], [[Woody Hayes]], [[Earle Bruce]], [[John Cooper (American football)|John Cooper]], [[Jim Tressel]], [[Luke Fickell]], and [[Urban Meyer]]. Twelve coaches have won [[Athletic conference|conference]] championships with the Buckeyes: [[Albert E. Herrnstein|Albert Herrnstein]], [[John R. Richards|John Richards]], Wilce, [[Francis Schmidt]], [[Paul Brown]], [[Carroll Widdoes]], Fesler, Hayes, Bruce, Cooper, Tressel, and Meyer. Four coaches led Buckeyes to NCAA championship victory Brown, Hayes, Tressel, and Meyer.[[College football national championships in NCAA Division I FBS|national championships]]
Hayes is the all-time leader in games coached and years coached with the Buckeyes, while also leading all coaches in victories (205). Meyer currently holds the highest [[winning percentage]] of all Buckeye coaches (.901), with a current record of 73–8 in six seasons. [[David Edwards (coach)|David Edwards]] holds the lowest winning percentage of any Buckeye head coach (.167), going 1–7–1 in the only season that he coached. Of the 24 Buckeye head coaches, [[Howard Jones (American football coach)|Howard Jones]], Wilce, Schmidt, Fesler, Hayes, Bruce, Cooper, and Tressel have been inducted into the [[College Football Hall of Fame]]. The most recent head coach of the Buckeyes is [[Urban Meyer]] who was hired in November 2011 and then announced December 4, 2018, he would retire following the Rose Bowl. [[Ryan Day (American football)|Ryan Day]] was slated to become the new coach of the Buckeyes.
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Cooper's thirteen years as Buckeye head coach are largely remembered in the litany of negative statistics associated with him: a notorious 2–10–1 record against Michigan, a 3–8 record in bowl games, a 5-year losing streak to Illinois to start his term and a 6–7 record overall, and blowing a 15-point 3rd quarter lead in a 28–24 loss to unranked Michigan State when the Buckeyes were the top-ranked team in the nation and en route to a national championship. However his record also has many positives: back-to-back victories over Notre Dame, two finishes second-ranked in the polls, and three Big Ten championships (albeit shared). Cooper also recruited 15 players who were first-round draft picks in the National Football League.