Ohio State Football: Why Urban Meyer Will Struggle to Reach Nick Saban’s Level

Nick Saban and Urban Meyer are arguably the two best college football coaches of the 21st century, though Saban has been on another level as of late. It will take time for Meyer to reach that level at Ohio State. Meyer took a year after resigning from Florida before moving north to Ohio State, where he quickly took the Buckeyes to a 12-0 season in 2012. Saban won his third national championship in four years with the Alabama Crimson Tide in 2012, his first coming after beating Meyer and the Gators in the 2009 SEC Championship Game. Saban got the better of Meyer the last two times their respective teams met, and the former has gone on to rule the college football world by a convincing margin. Meyer, on the other hand, has been trying to lay the groundwork to do at Ohio State what Saban has accomplished at Alabama. It’s going well so far …

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