ANN ARBOR — That blast of cold ripping through Michigan Stadium on Saturday afternoon?

It wasn’t just the wind swirling inside the world’s biggest snow globe.

It was Ohio exhaling.

Its long statewide football nightmare is over.

And so is Ryan Day’s.

What can you say about him now?

On a day on loan from Narnia, top-ranked Ohio State delivered a 27-9 victory over No. 15 Michigan as dominant as it was cathartic for Day and the visitors.

To watch the smiling Buckeyes coach in the final minutes — as a booming “O-H-I-O” cheer bounced among the thousands of scarlet of partisans in an otherwise empty stadium — was to see a man on top of the very world just lifted from his shoulders.

He radiated pure joy and relief, and just maybe a dash of vigilante mischief, although he declined to go the

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