Tressel, of course, was speaking from experience through the lens of what current coach Ryan Day and his family go through on a weekly basis in Columbus. "The next day they're saying you're horrible and you're really not.
Urban Meyer feels terrible for a Penn State player who won't experience Thursday's Orange Bowl. Before the College Football Playoff, quarterback Beau Pribula made the "impossible decision" to enter the transfer portal.
Meyer becomes the eighth coach from Ohio State to be voted into the College Football Hall of Fame joining other Buckeye greats Howard Jones (1910), John Wilce (1913-28), Francis Schmidt (1934-40), Woody Hayes (1951-78), Earle Bruce (1979-87), John Cooper (1988-2000) and Jim Tressel (2001-10).
TV20 had the chance to sit down with Meyer to discuss his career, the changes in college football, and what the Hall of Fame means to him.
Ex-Ohio State coach Urban Meyer, who won three national titles, including one for the Buckeyes, has been voted into the College Football Hall of Fame.
with a spot in the College Football Playoff championship game on the line. While they’re wearing different colors and are hoping for drastically different results, they’re apparently united by at least one thing: a strong distaste for Urban Meyer.
Thankfully, the golf cart carrying the Ohio State delegation to the media room following their win over Notre Dame in the College Football Playoff championship game wasn't going very fast when it crashed into the wall. Everyone on the cart was perfectly fine. Day's face during the incident, though, said it all.
Florida officials had discussed inducting Meyer to open the 2022 season, with the Gators hosting Utah and Meyer expected to be coaching nearby with the Jacksonville Jaguars. But Meyer’s NFL tenure ended in scandal after 13 games in 2021, so the timing would have been somewhat awkward.
Ryan Day deserved to feel vindication when he won a national championship less than two months after it seemed his Ohio State job was on the line
Ohio State was seeded eighth in the tournament, but the seedings were pretty much meaningless. The worse seed won every game in the quarterfinal and semifinal rounds, and the Buckeyes dominated in this title-game showdown of No. 7 vs. No. 8.
The 2002 national championship was, of course, the game in which Ohio State shocked the world with a double-overtime 31-24 win over defending national champion Miami and ended the Hurricanes’ 34-game winning streak. It is unique. A once-in-a-lifetime type of experience. But this year and 2014 remind me of each other a lot.