In the immediate aftermath, Urban Meyer had a difficult time explaining what just happened. There were only two things he seemed to be able to remember.
“Curtis scored,” Ohio State’s head coach said after his team’s stunning, 30-27 double-overtime victory against archrival Michigan on Saturday. “And I remember that Neil Diamond song. That was great.”
“Weird life, man.”
As thousands of Ohio State fans flooded the Ohio Stadium turf following Saturday’s victory against Michigan, 'Sweet Caroline' bellowed from the PA system. It was hard to find somebody who wasn’t singing along.
Somewhere in the masses was Meyer.