COLLEGE PARK, Md. — Urban Meyer hopped around, slapped players and coaches on their rear ends, waved his arms in the air and sprinted through warmups while the sun set behind the west side of Maryland Stadium as if he were the one wearing a helmet and shoulder pads. Loose, confident and knowing what his team did against a top-10 opponent a week earlier, Meyer looked more than ready for Ohio State to thrash Maryland.
“I think we played defense two weeks in a row like that and the guys are playing really hard and we have a good rotation of guys on the defensive line,” Meyer said after the Buckeyes throttled Maryland with ease Saturday afternoon 62-3.