Ohio State Football: Why Urban Meyer Has Gotten the Full Attention of the SEC

Urban Meyer has only been at Ohio State for one season, and he already has the attention of several coaches from the SEC, namely Will Muschamp and Nick Saban. OSU has not officially beaten an SEC team in a bowl game after its 2011 Sugar Bowl win was vacated. But Meyer knows the SEC, has won SEC championships and knows what it takes to beat a top-flight SEC team. The two coaches who have made mention of Meyer, albeit in equally condescending fashion, have intimate ties with Meyer’s work in the past few years. Muschamp, of course, replaced Meyer after he resigned at Florida, and Saban coached against Meyer in consecutive SEC Championship Games. Muschamp opened SEC Media Days with a jab at Meyer’s Buckeyes after Meyer turned in the Gators for two secondary recruiting violations: “In both situations, we were turned in by Ohio. We didn’t do anything wrong. The University of Florida didn’t do anything wrong. And so we appreciated our friends from Ohio making sure we’re compliant

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