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Jan. 15—Urban Meyer is part of a star-studded class set to be enshrined into the College Football Hall of Fame later this year.
The National Football Foundation announced Wednesday that Meyer, who was born in Toledo, raised in northeast Ohio and led Ohio State to the 2014 national championship, will join former Alabama coach Nick Saban, Larry Korver (Northwestern College) and Larry Blakeney (Troy) as coaches to join the hallowed hall in December.
The class of players includes Virginia Tech quarterback Michael Vick, Texas Southern defensive lineman Michael Strahan and Oregon defensive tackle Haloti Ngata.
Meyer was a graduate assistant at Ohio State in the mid-1980s before becoming an assistant at Illinois State, Colorado State and Notre Dame.
He was the head coach at Bowling Green in 2001 and ’02, leading the Falcons to a 17-6 record, before going 22-2 at Utah, including a win over Pittsburgh in the Fiesta Bowl following the 2004 season, then went to Florida.
He led the Gators to a 65-15 record in six seasons and won the national championship in 2006 and ’08.
After a brief retirement from burnout, Meyer took over at Ohio State in 2012 and led the Buckeyes to a 12-0 record in his first season.
They won the first College Football Playoff in 2014 and three Big Ten titles before Meyer retired again following the 2019 Rose Bowl.
He finished 187-32 overall, a winning percentage of .853 that trails only Notre Dame’s Knute Rockne and Frank Leahy in college football history.
Meyer’s Ohio State teams went 83-9, including a 7-0 mark against Michigan.
Meyer will be the eighth Ohio State coach to be inducted into the CFB HOF, joining Clifton native Woody Hayes, Jim Tressel, John Cooper, Earle Bruce, Francis Schmidt, John Wilce and Howard Jones.
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Author : Dayton Daily News, Ohio
Publish date : 2025-01-16 02:10:00
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