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Game Thread Ohio State vs. Bowling Green, 09/03/16 @ 12pm ET, BTN

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Urban Meyer's first team at Bowling Green remains special to the Ohio State head coach

As Ohio State prepares to open the season against Bowling Green, head coach Urban Meyer gets ready to face the school where he got his start.

If ESPN ever wanted to make a “30 for 30” on the 2001 Bowling Green football team – and just about everyone involved on that team agrees it’s a hell of a story – we can already give them the tagline.

“What if I told you,” the ever-serious voiceover would intone, “that a team that didn’t even make a bowl game changed college football history?”

That’s right, the 2001 Falcons were 8-3 on the year, certainly a good season but not a great one by many measures. The way things were done in the Mid-American Conference at the time, that wasn’t enough to qualify for postseason play.

But dig a little deeper and the story becomes more clear. It jumps off the page, even. That first team nearly did the impossible, playing above its skill level and using sheer will to capture those eight wins.

Oh, and it did so under Urban Meyer.

Now nationally renowned, a veritable college football legend known in every corner of the state from Ashtabula to Zanesville and probably from Andorra to Zanzibar too, Meyer was in his first season as a head coach. There was no guarantee the hard-charging, famously intense 37-year-old named after a pope would survive let alone thrive in charge of a program, even one as tradition-rich yet victory-starved as Bowling Green.

Sure, Meyer had coached under Lou Holtz, Bob Davie and Earle Bruce. Yes, he had developed a reputation already as a demanding sort, the kind of guy who ran blocking drills so hard as a receivers coach at Notre Dame that they earned the nickname “Vietnam.”

But no one knew for sure if this guy had what it took to win as the head honcho. There had to be even more doubts when he ruled with an iron fist early on in his tenure, forcing a program that had grown lax in its work ethic to bend to his will, chasing off some of his starters and veterans along the way.

“That could have been a one-shot deal,” his wife Shelley recently told BuckeyeSports.com. “You might only have that one chance to prove yourself as a head coach. We were nervous about it. We had no idea what kind of leaders we’d be. We had no idea what kind of program he could put together.

Entire article: http://www.scout.com/college/ohio-state/story/1700471-meyer-s-first-team-remains-special-to-coach
 
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Paying too much to sit way too high but they don't install luggage racks on hearses. Looking forward to enjoying my first "legal" alcoholic beverage at the Shoe with a group of college buds from way back to the 02 Krenzel championship season! Predicting a rout 52-13 with 3 defensive / ST scores and a heavy dose of Weber to get our running game established.

Life is good and thank sweet baby Jesus that it's football season...
 
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Jaxbuck said:
I get some of the concern about the youth of OSU but look at what BGSU is dealing with for Woody's sake.

From the best team in BGSU history they lost:
-the head coach
-5,000 yard QB
-1,300 yard rusher
-top 3 receivers
-1 all-MAC OL
-the defense got DESTROYED (as MAC defenses do) several times last year so i don't really care what they bring back

For fucks sake fellas, this is an Urban Meyer reloading Ohio State team against a first year head coach reloading MAC team

This isn't going to be remotely close
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