Urban Meyer placed a premium on leadership for a reason. Dating back to his days at Florida, he heralded guys like Tim Tebow and Brandon Spikes for the role they played on his title teams. That didn’t change when he took over at Ohio State in 2012. He immediately went to work identifying guys who would set the tone for his team. That first season, it was players like John Simon and Zach Boren who fueled the 12-0 campaign. And over the years, Michael Bennett, Joey Bosa, Ezekiel Elliott, J.T. Barrett, Joshua Perry, Evan Spencer and a host of others led by example for Meyer. “Talent will get you about seven or eight wins,” Meyer said in the summer leading up to his first season as head coach in Columbus. “Discipline will start pushing that to nine. Then when you get leadership that’s when magic starts happening. It’s when you…
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