COLUMBUS – When Ohio State football coach Urban Meyer looks at film of what former OSU defensive coordinator Chris Ash is doing in his first season as Rutgers’ head coach, he sees a lot of the same things Ash liked to do as OSU’s co-defensive coordinator in 2014 and 2015. “It’s our defense. It’s our defense, and I mean exactly,” Meyer said at his weekly press conference on Monday. What Meyer left unsaid, though, is that while Ash’s schemes might look similar, the talent level at his disposal at Rutgers is very different than it was at Ohio State. So, the matter of how much Ash knows about Ohio State or how much OSU knows about him might not be all that much of a factor on Saturday when No. 2 Ohio State (3-0, 0-0 Big Ten) opens its conference schedule against Rutgers (2-2) at noon at Ohio Stadium. Ash was hired at Rutgers in December to replace Kyle Flood, who was fired after a controversial season in which several players were arrested on felony charges and he was accused of pressuring faculty members to give players better grades. Rutgers was 4-8 overall and 1-7 in the Big Ten last…
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