COLUMBUS, Ohio — Ohio State head coach Ryan Day appeared on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon on Monday, one week after the Buckeyes won the College Football Playoff National Championship. The trophy made an appearance with Day, and Fallon joked about how heavy it was.

COLUMBUS, Ohio — The Ohio State football team is losing a ton on defense, including the man in charge of coordinating it.

A campus, city and fan base that expects success finally broke through, reclaiming its spot atop the college football throne.

Now that he has won a national championship at Ohio State, it's time for Ryan Day to leave for the NFL to escape the toxic environment in Columbus.

Ohio State coach Ryan Day made it to the promiseland and delivered the Buckeyes their first national title since 2014, but the journey was far from a fairytale, according to his family.

As much as Ohio State's passionate supporters — and some within the media — had written off Day, his family and his team never lost hope.

Day received death threats following a loss to Michigan in November, but on Monday night, he won a national title

Ryan Day’s appearance on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon continued a week-long celebration and touched on Ohio State’s championship victory over Notre Dame, the rise

Nina Day, wife of Ohio State coach Ryan Day, received unsolicited text messages following the Buckeyes' loss to Michigan in November suggesting that her husband should commit suicide. "They told me multiple times to have Ryan follow in his father's footsteps and kill himself,

"The story gets to get told now, and it's a great story," Ohio State coach Ryan Day said postgame to ... to have won a national championship in Columbus. Need a break? Play the USA TODAY Daily ...

This victory will taste extra sweet for the wrongly-embattled Day, who could choose to leave Columbus with the task complete