Urban did his friend Steve Addazio a favor.
“You better buckle it up, guy," he cautioned his former assistant of Northern Illinois last September. It was mere days before Addazio's Boston College team would be facing the same Huskies that held the defending national champions under 300 yards of offense on their own field - while limiting the Buckeyes to just one offensive touchdown.
Ohio State committed seven penalties, fumbled twice and threw three interceptions that afternoon. Northern Illinois, the only MAC program to ever grace a BCS bowl, made the Buckeyes look pedestrian for an entire game for the first time in over a year.