Check that: It’s more like Moses splitting the Red Sea.

Of course, it helps when you have Riley Leonard, an Opie Taylor of quarterbacks, serving up the following gems of perspective:

“After Northern Illinois, that’s when you start to think, like, dang,” Leonard said. “It was like, shoot, we weren’t even thinking about the playoff at that point. After that game, it was like, shoot, forget being the best team in the county. You’ve got to be the best team on the field every single week.”

He’s right, daggone it. Heckfire.

Fans and goobers

Speaking of miracles, there haven’t been any roving bands armed with pitchforks and torches marching along High Street in Columbus, Ohio. Or at least none yet reported beyond the banks of the Olentangy River.

Still, things there are pretty anxious. That’s the normal climate after losing to Michigan.

Now multiply that by four straight defeats to That Team Up North. Ohio State coach Ryan Day has likely explored beard-coloring options in case he needs to vanish.

Nevermind he’s a Saban-esque 69-10 since taking over in 2018 — it’s those four Ls to Michigan that define him. Plus, there’s the perception Day was “born on third base,” the implication being he was handed the keys to a Ferrari rather than learning to drive with a beater.

Whether that assessment is real or merely perceived doesn’t matter. It was cemented by former Michigan coach Jim Harbaugh. His words have a way of lingering in kind of the way the NCAA keeps lingering around Ann Arbor.

Jeff Thitoff, a host on 97.1 The Fan in Columbus as well as Fan Stream Sports, puts the Ohio State faithful into one of two buckets — Buckeye fans and Buckeye goobers.

Buckeye fans, he says, are “smart, reasonable fans” and that former and current players “love Day.” The goobers, according to Thitoff, are “lunatics” who wanted Day fired after the latest Michigan loss with visions of Mike Vrabel or Urban Meyer returning to save things.