Editor’s note: Part of a continuing series examining the Power 5 and top Group of 5 teams for the 2019 college football season.



The shelves are kind of bare in Urban Meyer’s old office.



The room inside the Woody Hayes Athletic Center belongs to Ryan Day now, and though there are some decorations on the shelves and a picture of Day and his family on the wall behind the big, wooden desk, things are transitioning.



Day didn’t want to put too much work into making this office truly his until a remodeling is complete. Day tried to find illustrations of the upcoming renovations, but he couldn’t find them. So he described it instead: There is going to be darker wood accents and new shelving, and he’s going to rearrange the office furniture.



“It’s going to be beautiful,” Day said.



This is the world Ohio State football is living in right now — it’s a space recently occupied by a legend and...