Ohio State head coach Ryan Day answers questions from news outlets as the Buckeyes prepare for their upcoming matchup against Notre Dame in the CFP National Championship game. The Buckeyes defeated Texas 28-14 in the Cotton Bowl Friday. "The holding calls certainly set us back. We got to do a good job with our execution overall and that's going to be important in this game more than ever," Day said on Sunday. Day said the national championship will be a "complete battle," and Ohio State will have to play their best game. After not even making the Big Ten title game, Ohio State (13-2) gets a shot at its sixth AP national championship when it plays Notre Dame (14-1) on Jan. 20 in Atlanta. Only the eight-time champion Irish — who won their last in 1988 — Alabama (12) and Oklahoma (seven) have more AP titles than the Buckeyes. Ohio State's last national championship was 10 years ago when the CFP debuted with a four-team format and the Buckeyes as the No. 4 seed. They went into this first season of the expanded 12-team playoff as the eighth seed, winning in the first round on campus over Tennessee and then the CFP quarterfinal at the Rose Bowl against undefeated Big Ten champion Oregon, which beat them by a point in October. “Not finished, though,” coach Day said during a much happier postgame at the Cotton Bowl this time. “It’s not finished. But we did just walk in here and say the same thing. What a difference a year makes. But we're not done yet.