In 2008, Urban Meyer’s Florida team went 13-1, averaged over 43 points a game while giving up about 13, featured a reigning Heisman winner at quarterback, won the SEC and won the BCS national championship with a 24-14 victory over Oklahoma. It was as good a season as any coach could ever ask for.
What Urban Meyer is accomplishing this year won’t end with his team winning the crystal football, but it’s an even better coaching job.
Think about the advantages Meyer had that year. His offensive coordinator was Dan Mullen, who’s now running a Top 20 team at Mississippi State. His defensive coordinator was Charlie Strong, who’s now running a Top 20 team at Louisville.
Moreover, it was Meyer’s fourth season with both of those guys—and only his redshirt seniors had been under a different coaching regime. There were only 10 of those redshirt seniors on Florida’s team that year, too…and three were long snappers. Only two (offensive tackles Phil Trautwein and Jason Watkins) were starters. Everyone else—except for JUCO players and other transfers, of course, and there weren’t many of those—had been brought along in Meyer’s regime for their entire collegiate careers. They were “his guys.”
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