Ohio State’s players and coaches refrain from using the word ‘Michigan’ when referring to their archrival. Inside the walls of the Woody Hayes Athletic Center, Michigan is simply known as ‘The Team Up North.’
But after the Buckeyes claimed the national title following a storybook 2014 season, there’s another word that has been vacated from Ohio State’s vocabulary: repeat.
“Repeat is not a conversation,” head coach Urban Meyer says.
Meyer doesn’t want to talk about it. As a coach who has been through the process of defending a national championship twice before, that’s easy to understand.