When Urban Meyer returned to Columbus from the Fiesta Bowl, he sped home to get away from football for a bit and be with his family.
Late into the evening, his iPhone vibrated, its screen showing a text from a friend and former Ohio State player congratulating him on beating Notre Dame, 44-28, earlier that day to cap the 2015 season and open the 2016 calendar in victory.
Then, there was a few words below those positive notes.
"Then something about people who are being critical or something," Meyer said Thursday. "I read it again and I said, 50-4, I wrote back to him, 'Critical of what?