Urban Meyer Proves He’s College Football’s Top Coach After OSU Conquers Alabama

As confetti rained down on the winner’s podium after a classic showdown between No. 4 Ohio State and No. 1 Alabama, college football’s top coach picked up the Sugar Bowl Trophy and hoisted it over his head.

A majority of the experts, oddsmakers and fans around the country expected that to be Nick Saban, the head man of a Crimson Tide team that entered the Sugar Bowl as nine-point favorites. But that distinction now belongs to Urban Meyer after the Buckeyes beat the Tide 42-35 to advance to the national championship game against Oregon.

Meyer was growing tired of hearing about the SEC’s superiority and how the Big Ten couldn’t hang with the elite teams in college football. He was on a mission Thursday night to change that narrative.

“We’re a bunch of good coaches and players that worked their tails off and investing in a lot of resources into these traditionally great programs,” Meyer said, according to Patrick Maks of Eleven Warriors. “Because at some point it gets exhausting when you keep hearing and hearing about the conference hierarchy and then you start believing.”

But Meyer changed that perception with a brilliant performance against Alabama on college football’s biggest stage.

It wasn’t supposed to unfold that way. The SEC West was touted as the best division in college football earlier this season after it placed four teams (Mississippi State, Auburn, Ole Miss and Alabama) in the top six of the first rankings released by the…

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