Former Ohio State coach Urban Meyer recalls the best pregame speech he ever gave. He never said a word.
In the wake of Ohio State’s 59-0 blowout of Wisconsin in the 2014 Big Ten title game, the Buckeyes entered the College Football Playoff as heavy underdogs against Alabama. They were also going up against the aura of the SEC, so Meyer showed Wisconsin’s 34-31 bowl win over Auburn that year as a way to mock the supposed invincibility of the SEC. “They’d been told for 10 years that the SEC is unbeatable,” Meyer said in a phone interview last week.