CLOSE SportsPulse: USA TODAY Sports’ college football reporter Paul Myerberg breaks down the hottest headlines from Week 6. USA TODAY Sports Ohio State Buckeyes head coach Urban Meyer.(Photo: Noah K. Murray, USA TODAY Sports) After leading his team to last season’s College Football Playoff semifinals, Ohio State coach Urban Meyer received a pay raise that was more than $100,000 above the amount required by his contract and pushes his basic annual compensation from the school for this season to more than $6.4 million. The university provided the figures to USA TODAY Sports on Tuesday in response to an open-records request. The increase took effect Feb. 1, according to university spokesman Chris Davey. That likely makes Meyer the nation’s third-highest paid public-school football coach in terms of annual compensation, behind Alabama’s Nick Saban ($7.125 million) Michigan’s Jim Harbaugh ($7 million). Clemson’s Dabo Swinney likely will be the only other coach making…
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