COLUMBUS, Ohio — Urban Meyer has done what Nick Saban hasn’t yet. He successfully passed on his success to a hand-picked successor. Monday’s College Football Playoff National Championship will remind us of that, as six years after Ohio State beat Alabama in a program-changing semifinal, this matchup between the Buckeyes and Crimson Tide isn’t Meyer-Saban Round 5 (they’re 2-2 head-to-head.) It’s Ryan Day vs. Saban, the 41-year-old former OSU assistant in his second season as the replacement that Meyer and athletic director Gene Smith chose, vs. the 69-year-old legend in his 27th year as a head coach, his 25th in college. No one at Ohio State wishes Meyer was coaching this game instead, which is not a criticism but is a tribute to Day, a tribute to Smith and also a tribute to Meyer. The handoff worked. That’s how a program keeps winning. Meyer is back in the news this…
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