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Q&A: Ohio State’s Urban Meyer on Embracing Change as a Coach

Coach Urban Meyer has the defending national champion Ohio State Buckeyes 8-0 and ranked No. 1 amid a 21-game win streak. It is Meyer’s fourth 20-game win streak as a college head coach, a career that has included stops at Bowling Green, Utah and Florida, where he won two national titles. No other top-level college football coach has had more than two such streaks. In a 30-minute phone call with The New York Times last week, Meyer discussed how he has changed as a coach, what went wrong for him at Florida, and why he recently decided to name J.