Written by Mark Titus at The Ringer.com
Despite my best efforts, I already know that this is going to come across as insufferable, and I’m sorry for that. I really am. I know the last thing you need in your life is another obnoxious Ohio State fan, so I’m going to do my best to not get too carried away here.
It’s just … I honestly think Urban Meyer might be God.
Let me be clear: I know no. 3 Ohio State beating no. 14 Oklahoma 45–24 on Saturday night doesn’t really mean much in the grand scheme. It’s still September, the toughest part of the Buckeyes’ schedule is yet to come, and the Sooners have had a reputation for falling short in big games for so long that even joking about it is played out at this point. But this isn’t about what transpired in Norman in Week 3. This is about the general feeling that comes with supporting the Ohio State football program in recent years. This is about all the pleasure brought on by being an alumnus of a school whose football team is coached by Urban Fucking Meyer. THERE’S JUST SO MUCH PLEASURE.
I assumed this would be a down year by Ohio State standards. The Buckeyes fell short of living up to their massive expectations last season, lost the best draft class in modern NFL history, and came into this fall with the single most inexperienced team in college football. Logic and reason told me to be ecstatic with a best-case scenario of 10 wins and a Citrus Bowl trip. Logic and reason also told me that this would finally be the year that Michigan would get over the hump versus Ohio State. But Urban Fucking Meyer told me to grab a wet cloth because this year’s team is going to leave me with quite the mess in the front of my pants.
It truly is mind-blowing what Meyer has done since he got to Columbus, and I’m not even talking about the wins or the recruiting or the NFL players he’s produced. I just mean what he’s done to the culture of Ohio State. He replaced a national-title-winning coach (and interim coach Luke Fickell) at one of the most storied programs in the sport and had impossible expectations placed on him from the start. Yet somehow, he’s been so good that he’s taken a fan base that demands a championship every season to places we didn’t think were possible.
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