It's been 2,087 days since Ohio State last beat Michigan, and that fact is never far from Ryan Day's mind. The countdown clock has been ticking inside the Woody Hayes Athletic Center since that inexcusable loss last November,

For as great as Ryan Day has been since taking over for Urban Meyer at Ohio State, his record vs. Michigan in The Game continues to haunt him. The Buckeyes are riding a four-game losing skid to The Team Up North — which had largely ruined OSU's national championship hopes up until last year.

Why the national-champion Buckeyes squeezed the extra assignment into an already packed schedule.

This article was originally published on www.si.com/college/ohiostate as Analyst Explains Why There's Pressure On Ohio State To Get QB Competition Right . This is a huge fall camp period for Ryan Day and the No. 3-ranked Ohio State Buckeyes.

Ryan Day, Urban Meyer, Jim Tressel and more detail the factors that have kept Ohio State around the top of college football for decades.