COLUMBUS, Ohio — Election Day was last Tuesday. But for Urban Meyer, campaign season is just getting underway.
That’s nothing new for the Ohio State head coach, who is a decade removed from having to fight to get his undefeated Utah squad into a coveted BCS bowl. Two years later, Meyer would again campaign—successfully—to land Florida in the national title game, and even last year he found himself arguing the Buckeyes’ national championship game worthiness, before Michigan State made it a moot point.
So it shouldn’t come as a surprise that as we head down the homestretch and toward the first ever College Football Playoff, Meyer again finds himself at the center of controversy. With the selection of the playoff’s field of four fewer than four weeks away, there may not be a team with a more interesting resume than Ohio State—especially after last weekend’s big win over Michigan State.
Meyer knows that his team’s most impressive win—maybe the most impressive of all of the teams remaining in the playoff field—will be weighed against Ohio State’s albatross of a loss to Virginia Tech in the second week of the season. Which is why, when asked about the subject on Monday, the third-year Buckeyes coach was prepared.
“I don’t want to act like it’s rehearsed—but it’s rehearsed because I tend to say stupid things sometimes,” Meyer said, drawing on his previous campaign experiences. “That early in the season we were not a great…
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