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Ohio State Can Surge Down the Stretch if It Embraces the Angry Underdog Role

All of Urban Meyer's best teams were pissed off.

You can go back and look, or you can let me help with that.

Eleven years ago, Ohio State fans saw it firsthand on a fateful January night in Glendale, Arizona. The top-ranked and undefeated Buckeyes spent the better part of the previous month going to award ceremonies and hearing how unstoppable they were ahead of their BCS National Championship Game matchup with No. 2 Florida.

The angrier team (which entered the contest a 7.5-point underdog) won that night. By 27 points. And it wasn't even remotely that close.