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Three straight wins in the College Football Playoff landed the Buckeyes in the championship game against Notre Dame. A win will keep his critics at bay. A loss? Ryan Day doesn’t want to think about that.

Ohio State was No. 5 in the second-to-last College Football Playoff rankings, positioned to possibly take advantage if one of the top four slips up on championship weekend.

The trailblazing journalist announced earlier this month she was stepping away from the daily grind of covering sports for the Akron Beacon Journal.

No. 1 Alabama blew past No. 3 Ohio State in the College Football Playoff Championship game, 52-24, to close out a season played entirely in a pandemic.

Ohio surpassed 400,000 total coronavirus cases over the weekend; Akron-based Summa Health is suspending most elective procedures in the areas of surgical services, cardiology, endoscopy and interventional radiology beginning Tuesday; a government watchdog group hopes to turn the lights back on at the Ohio Statehouse by opening long-closed records; and more stories.

Here are your morning headlines for Monday, Feb. 11:Ohio misses mark on income tax;An Ohio city drops Columbus Day for Election Day;Akron-Canton Airport…