Coach Urban Meyer has the defending national champion Ohio State Buckeyes 8-0 and ranked No. 1 amid a 21-game win streak. It is Meyer’s fourth 20-game win streak as a college head coach, a career that has included stops at Bowling Green, Utah and Florida, where he won two national titles. No other top-level college football coach has had more than two such streaks. In a 30-minute phone call with The New York Times last week, Meyer discussed how he has changed as a coach, what went wrong for him at Florida, and why he recently decided to name J.T. Barrett Ohio State’s starting quarterback as the team chases a second straight national championship. Q: In your new book, “Above the Line,” you write that only minutes after winning the national title at Florida in early 2009, you went into an office and began to email recruits. A: I locked the door. Q: Wow. What did you do after the championship game victory with Ohio State in January? A: I certainly didn’t email any recruits. …
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