Michigan-Ohio State remains one of college football’s most heated rivalries.
It isn’t every day that you see someone make the jump directly from the Buckeyes to the Wolverines, but new Michigan coach Sherrone Moore reportedly dipped into Ryan Day’s staff to fill an assistant opening and is expected to hire away running backs coach Tony Alford, ESPN’s Pete Thamel reports. FootballScoop first reported that Alford was Michigan’s target for the job.
Alford has been a mainstay of the Ohio State coaching staff, serving as assistant head coach and running backs coach since 2015, two years before Ryan Day joined the staff under Urban Meyer. He’s coached a number of standout backs with the Buckeyes, including Ezekiel Elliott, J.K. Dobbins, Trey Sermon and most recently, TreVeyon Henderson.
