spotting the Buckeyes five points<\/a> at kickoff, but Ohio State won 62-39.<\/p>\n<\/div>\nMeyer’s retirement won’t be publicly celebrated by rival Michigan coach Jim Harbaugh, but it very well might keep the Wolverines coach his job. When it comes to football in Ann Arbor, the only thing that matters is beating Ohio State, and Harbaugh hasn’t done it once in the four years he’s led the Maize and Blue.<\/p>\n
College Football Landscape<\/b><\/h2>\n
Meyer’s resignation presumably won’t help Ohio State’s National Championship odds for next year. After missing out on this year’s CFP due to a bad loss at unranked Purdue, the Buckeyes are already looking to next year, and without Meyer, Day and his staff will go to work on making sure their 2019 commits remain on board.<\/p>\n
According to 247Sports<\/i>, an online sports outlet focused on college football recruiting, Ohio State has the 12th-best recruiting class for 2019. It has two 5-star and nine 4-star commits.<\/strong><\/p>\n247Sports <\/i>has rival Michigan at No. 8, and Big Ten challengers Penn State at No. 13.<\/p>\n
Alabama, the No. 1 ranked team in the College Football Playoff<\/a> and defending national champs, also has the best 2019 recruiting class. Coach Nick Saban’s program has been in a league of their own over the past decade, as the Crimson Tide have won five national titles since 2009, and look to make it six in the coming weeks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Urban Meyer will retire from football after coaching his No. 6 Ohio State Buckeyes in the Rose Bowl when they play No. 9 Washington on January 1 in Pasadena, California. Ryan Day, OSU’s offensive coordinator, is set to replace Meyer as head coach. Meyer began his OSU tenure in 2012 by leading the Buckeyes to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":93835,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,16,1074],"tags":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n
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