Urban Meyer has been out of coaching in college football since a retirement at the end of the 2018 season, but the former Ohio State head coach (2012-18) remains a key figure in the Buckeyes' rivalry dominance against Michigan. In an interview Tuesday on The Dan Patrick Show, Meyer was asked a question that brought OSU's eight straight wins over the Wolverines back into focus.
"Did you ever feel sorry when you faced Michigan and you were running up the score, roughing 'em up a little bit?" Patrick said.
Meyer chuckled and grinned.
"This is going to create a lot of headlines, but no," Meyer said.
Patrick laughed and begged to differ.
"No, if you said that you felt sorry for 'em, that would've created a headline, I think, coach," Patrick said, "because I was there a couple years ago when Ohio State, when (Dwayne) Haskins was quarterbacking and it wasn't stopping. I think that (you) probably could've put up 70, 75 if you wanted to. But do you run up the score on Michigan if you can?"
Meyer paused and tried to answer.
"I think your job is to play with, try to — let's see, how can I answer this politically correct?" Meyer said with a smile. "Our players work that game every year. You get the chance to go into the (College Football) Playoff — I'm not going to tell them to slow down, if that answers your question."
Meyer's final four falls from 2015-18 ended with Ohio State beating Michigan led by head coach Jim Harbaugh, whose bad luck continued against Ohio State successor Ryan Day in 2019 when the Buckeyes won 56-27 over the Wolverines on Nov. 30.
Meyer's final game in 2018 saw OSU post a 62-31 blowout win over Michigan, winning the Big Ten East and knocking the Wolverines out of the conference championship and CFB Playoff pictures. Among other times that Meyer and Ohio State beat up on the Wolverines was in 2015 — a 42-13 rout of Michigan — which was Harbaugh's debut.
From Ohio to beyond, Meyer was maniacal about recruiting with the Buckeyes. The efforts translated on the field as Meyer went 83-9 overall and 54-4 in Big Ten play from 2012-18.
"I have been (surprised by Harbaugh's limited success in Ohio)," Meyer told David Briggs of the Toledo (Ohio) Blade in May. "If you look a their history, and I know their history very well, two Heisman Trophy winners from Ohio, great players from Ohio. ... Coach Day and myself and our recruiting guy, we monitor them. Even to this day, I'll ask, 'What's going on (at Michigan)?' That usually was a street fight when we first got there, with (former Wolverines head coach) Brady Hoke and even coach Harbaugh. It was a street fight, because they were into Ohio everywhere."
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