Urban Meyer looked like a different person. This couldn’t be the same guy who, nine days earlier, bent over, locked his hands to his knees and stared at the ground while his team huddled a few feet away during a tight game at Maryland. This couldn’t be the guy who looked so uncomfortable as he started the season on a three-game suspension and then tried for two months to decipher why his defense gave up so many big plays and why the Buckeyes couldn’t get their run game to dominate opposing defenses.
As Meyer sat in his office last Monday and swapped stories about days gone by, he smiled easily.