Urban Meyer
Now
Career arc
Bowls and playoffs: 10-3 · won 3 of 3 national title games
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Show all 13 games
2003Liberty BowlW 17-0
Florida
2005Outback BowlW 31-24
2006 ★BCS title gameW 41-14
2007Capital One BowlL 35-41
2008 ★BCS title gameW 24-14
2009Sugar BowlW 51-24
2010Outback BowlW 37-24
Ohio State
2013Orange BowlL 35-40
2014 semiSugar BowlW 42-35
2014 ★CFP title gameW 42-20
2015Fiesta BowlW 44-28
2016 semiFiesta BowlL 0-31
2017Cotton Bowl ClassicW 24-7
Report card
Offense carries it: 94th percentile offense, top-quarter defense at 89th.
Ohio State, every completed season graded against the whole field, then averaged.
Offense
Defense
Each season is his team’s percentile among every team with that stat (the share it beat), averaged over his completed seasons here; a mid-season takeover year and the season in progress aren’t graded. Letters: A+ 90th percentile and up, A 80, B+ 70, B 60, B− 50, C+ 45, C 40, C− 30, D 15, F below.
Fans
No fan talk about him on our list yet. His record is on Career.
Stats
Big games
Pick a job to see its years on their own.
The big-game ledger
How he does in the games that matter most — rivalry record, performance broken out by real opponent tier, one-score games, and his toughest historical matchup.
1-1 against his rivals at Bowling Green.
The big-game ledger
How he does in the games that matter most — rivalry record, performance broken out by real opponent tier, one-score games, and his toughest historical matchup.
1-0 against his rivals at Utah.
The big-game ledger
How he does in the games that matter most — rivalry record, performance broken out by real opponent tier, one-score games, and his toughest historical matchup.
10-2 against his rivals at Florida. Just 1-2 against Nick Saban.
Signature games
Tags describe each game; they aren’t scores. The weighting that picks these games is still being tested.
The big-game ledger
How he does in the games that matter most — rivalry record, performance broken out by real opponent tier, one-score games, and his toughest historical matchup.
11-1 against his rivals at Ohio State. Nobody he faced three or more times there has a winning record against him.
Signature games
Tags describe each game; they aren’t scores. The weighting that picks these games is still being tested.
The big-game ledger
How he does in the games that matter most — rivalry record, performance broken out by real opponent tier, one-score games, and his toughest historical matchup.
23-4 against his rivals. Just 1-2 against Tommy Tuberville.
Signature games
Tags describe each game; they aren’t scores. The weighting that picks these games is still being tested.
ATS is his record against the spread: did his team beat the closing betting line, winning by more than it or losing by less? Lines start in 2013; a dash means fewer than 6 of those games had one. One-score games carry no spread record: a big favorite that wins a close game has almost always failed to cover, so that number would say nothing about the coach.
Defining games during this era
From our list of the 50 most defining games of the Playoff era, ranked by how much each game mattered, not by date.
How he plays
Run/pass mix, by field position
Called about what the situation called for under every play-caller.
5,244 run and pass snaps at Ohio State, 2012–2017, his own games, one row per offensive coordinator. Each cell is how much more often he passed than the rest of FBS did in the same situation (field zone, down, distance, score, quarter, same season), in percentage points.
Pass rate, stint by stint
Where each stint’s offense sat between run-first and pass-first, and how far it moved from one season to the next, against the FBS-wide average of 41% pass. The band is that stint’s real season-to-season range, not a fixed-width box.
Season-to-season pass-rate range for all 449 FBS coaching stints with at least three covered seasons, 2004–2025.
Building the roster
Six numbers on how he actually stocks a roster, from signing day to draft day.
His recruiting, really
His one ranked Ohio State class of his own finished #2 nationally.
His class — he had the full signing cycle
Rank is each signing class’s national recruiting rank (#1 is best). Only a class he had a full signing cycle to build counts as his.
Followed him here
Bowling Green→
Utah2003Utah→
Florida2005Players who transferred from his old program to his new one through the portal in the same year he made the move. Name-matching across data sources misses some, so every count is a floor, not an exact number.
Roster ownership
Roster ownership
of his 2018 roster arrived on his watch — 119 of 119 players. Nobody is left from before he was hired.
This coach's entire tenure (2012-2018) predates 2021, when transfer-portal tracking begins in this database. Portal usage cannot be measured for this tenure at all -- this is not the same as '0% portal'.
“His own” means the player arrived while he was head coach; “inherited” means a predecessor brought him in.
Size up front
Size up front
Offensive linemen on his Ohio State rosters have averaged within a few pounds of the FBS average (2012–2018). In the two seasons before he arrived, Ohio State’s line averaged 3 lb heavier than the FBS average.
Average listed weight of every offensive lineman on each season’s roster, holdovers included, against every FBS roster that season (2010 on; a program needs 3+ seasons under him to appear). Weights are the ones programs publish, and programs list differently. This describes size only — not scheme, and not quality.
Where he recruits
is his biggest recruiting state: 67 of 160 signees (42%) across his 2012–2018 tenure, drawn from 26 states in all. Next: FL (19).
49% of his signees come from OH and its 5 border states (IN 4, MI 4, PA 3, KY 1).
Off this map: 7 signees to the west (CA 4, NV 2, others).
- median hometown distance
- 134 mi
- within 100 mi
- 21%
- within 500 mi
- 76%
- beyond 1,000 mi
- 8%
The map counts signed recruits across his tenure; the distance figures cover his current roster, transfers and walk-ons included. Two different groups, kept separate on purpose.
The NFL pipeline
The NFL pipeline
players drafted into the NFL off his teams here. He brought in 33 of them himself; 13 arrived under Luke Fickell (8), Jim Tressel (5). 3 more can’t be traced to who brought them in (no roster record). 14 went in the first round.
| Year | Pick | Player | Pos | NFL team | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | R1.02 | Nick Bosa | Defensive End |  San Francisco 49ers | |
| 2019 | R1.15 | Dwayne Haskins | Quarterback |  Washington Redskins | |
| 2019 | R2.27 | Parris Campbell | Wide Receiver |  Indianapolis Colts | |
| 2019 | R3.07 | Dre'Mont Jones | Defensive Tackle |  Denver Broncos | |
| 2019 | R3.12 | Terry McLaurin | Wide Receiver | Washington Redskins | |
| 2019 | R4.09 | Kendall Sheffield | Cornerback |  Atlanta Falcons | |
| 2019 | R4.34 | Michael Jordan | Offensive Guard |  Cincinnati Bengals | |
| 2019 | R6.29 | Isaiah Prince | Offensive Tackle |  Miami Dolphins |
| Year | Pick | Player | Pos | NFL team | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | R7.04 | Mike Weber | Running Back |  Dallas Cowboys | |
| 2018 | R1.04 | Denzel Ward | Cornerback |  Cleveland Browns | |
| 2018 | R1.21 | Billy Price | Center | Cincinnati Bengals | |
| 2018 | R2.32 | Tyquan Lewis | Defensive End | Indianapolis Colts | |
| 2018 | R3.09 | Jerome Baker | Outside Linebacker | Miami Dolphins | |
| 2018 | R3.13 | Sam Hubbard | Defensive End | Cincinnati Bengals | |
| 2018 | R4.02 | Jalyn Holmes | Defensive End |  Minnesota Vikings | |
| 2018 | R5.31 | Jamarco Jones | Offensive Tackle |  Seattle Seahawks | |
| 2017 | R1.11 | Marshon Lattimore | Cornerback |  New Orleans Saints | |
| 2017 | R1.15 | Malik Hooker | Safety | Indianapolis Colts | |
| 2017 | R1.24 | Gareon Conley | Cornerback |  Oakland Raiders | |
| 2017 | R2.08 | Curtis Samuel | Wide Receiver |  Carolina Panthers | |
| 2017 | R2.22 | Raekwon McMillan | Inside Linebacker |  Miami Dolphins | |
| 2017 | R3.06 | Pat Elflein | Center | Minnesota Vikings | |
| 2017 | R7.21 | Noah Brown | Wide Receiver | Dallas Cowboys | |
| 2016 | R1.03 | Joey Bosa | Defensive End |  San Diego Chargers | |
| 2016 | R1.04 | Ezekiel Elliott | Running Back | Dallas Cowboys | |
| 2016 | R1.10 | Eli Apple | Cornerback |  New York Giants | |
| 2016 | R1.16 | Taylor Decker | Offensive Tackle |  Detroit Lions | |
| 2016 | R1.20 | Darron Lee | Outside Linebacker |  New York Jets | |
| 2016 | R2.16 | Michael Thomas | Wide Receiver |  New Orleans Saints | |
| 2016 | R2.30 | Vonn Bell | Safety | New Orleans Saints | |
| 2016 | R3.17 | Adolphus Washington | Defensive Tackle |  Buffalo Bills | |
| 2016 | R3.22 | Braxton Miller | Wide Receiver |  Houston Texans | recruited under Luke Fickell |
| 2016 | R3.31 | Nick Vannett | Tight End | Seattle Seahawks | recruited under Luke Fickell |
| 2016 | R4.04 | Joshua Perry | Inside Linebacker | San Diego Chargers | |
| 2016 | R4.41 | Cardale Jones | Quarterback | Buffalo Bills | |
| 2015 | R2.05 | Devin Smith | Wide Receiver | New York Jets | recruited under Luke Fickell |
| 2015 | R3.28 | Jeff Heuerman | Tight End | Denver Broncos | recruited under Luke Fickell |
| 2015 | R4.22 | Doran Grant | Cornerback |  Pittsburgh Steelers | recruited under Luke Fickell |
| 2015 | R6.04 | Michael Bennett | Defensive Tackle |  Jacksonville Jaguars | recruited under Luke Fickell |
| 2015 | R6.11 | Evan Spencer | Wide Receiver | Washington Redskins | recruited under Luke Fickell |
| 2014 | R1.15 | Ryan Shazier | Outside Linebacker | Pittsburgh Steelers | recruited under Luke Fickell |
| 2014 | R1.31 | Bradley Roby | Cornerback | Denver Broncos | Estimated |
| 2014 | R2.25 | Carlos Hyde | Running Back | San Francisco 49ers | recruited under Jim Tressel |
| 2014 | R2.27 | Jack Mewhort | Offensive Tackle | Indianapolis Colts | recruited under Jim Tressel |
| 2014 | R5.21 | Corey Linsley | Center |  Green Bay Packers | recruited under Jim Tressel |
| 2014 | R7.26 | C.B. Bryant | Safety |  St. Louis Rams | Estimated |
| 2013 | R2.17 | Johnathan Hankins | Defensive Tackle | New York Giants | recruited under Jim Tressel |
| 2013 | R4.32 | John Simon | Defensive End |  Baltimore Ravens | recruited under Jim Tressel |
| 2013 | R7.34 | Reid Fragel | Offensive Tackle | Cincinnati Bengals | Estimated |
A pick counts toward his tenure when the player’s final college season was one he coached, a checkable rule rather than a claim about who developed the player. A blank note means the player is on a verified roster and arrived on his watch. “Estimated” means no roster record, so the final season is assumed to be the year before the draft.
News
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Career
Coaching career
The arc of his career is on Now.
Transformer raised the program into the sport's top tier, or higher within it · Sustainer inherited a power and held it for five-plus elite seasons · Steady no large move in either direction on our stature ladder
4th-best Ohio State tenure of 12 by the numbers.
Followed Luke Fickell (2011) · succeeded by Ryan Day (2018–now).
| Season | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Record & result | ||||||||
| Record | 12-0 | 12-2 | 14-1 | 12-1 | 11-2 | 12-2 | 10-1 | |
| Postseason | — | L bowl | Champion | W bowl | CFP loss | W bowl | W bowl | |
| Coordinators | ||||||||
| OC | — | — | Ed Warinner / Tom Herman | Ed Warinner / Tim Beck | Ed Warinner / Tim Beck | Kevin Wilson / Ryan Day | Kevin Wilson / Ryan Day | |
| DC | — | — | Chris Ash / Luke Fickell | Chris Ash / Luke Fickell | Greg Schiano / Luke Fickell | Greg Schiano | Alex Grinch / Greg Schiano | |
| Outcome — opponent-adjusted efficiency percentile | ||||||||
| Offense | 73 | 99 | 99 | 79 | 47 | 90 | 93 | |
| Defense | 79 | 32 | 80 | 84 | 98 | 95 | 49 | |
| Tendencies — play-by-play, neutral script | ||||||||
| 1st-down pass% | 33.8 | 41.7 | 42.5 | 33.9 | 38.6 | 41.6 | 41.9 | |
| Red-zone pass% | 23.2 | 39.5 | 37.1 | 20.2 | 31.0 | 44.3 | 48.3 | |
| 4th-down go%opp. territory | 23.1 | 44.0 | 32.6 | 27.8 | 33.3 | 40.0 | 33.3 | |
Performs about as expected for his recruiting talent, on both sides of the ball.
1st-best Florida tenure of 22 by the numbers.
Followed Ron Zook (2002–2004) · succeeded by Will Muschamp (2011–2014).
| Season | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Record & result | |||||||
| Record | 9-3 | 13-1 | 9-4 | 13-1 | 13-1 | 8-5 | |
| Postseason | W bowl | Champion | L bowl | Champion | W bowl | W bowl | |
| Outcome — opponent-adjusted efficiency percentile | |||||||
| Offense | 63 | 90 | 100 | 99 | 100 | 21 | |
| Defense | 47 | 96 | 21 | 95 | 70 | 89 | |
| Tendencies — play-by-play, neutral script | |||||||
| 1st-down pass% | 47.6 | 43.3 | 41.6 | 37.6 | 36.5 | 38.2 | |
| Red-zone pass% | 34.9 | 40.7 | 35.7 | 29.9 | 28.0 | 32.5 | |
| 4th-down go%opp. territory | 25.0 | 23.5 | 25.0 | 25.9 | 20.0 | 46.2 | |
30 NFL Draft picks: Chad Jackson (2006), Jeremy Mincey (2006), Dee Webb (2006), Jarvis Moss (2007), Reggie Nelson (2007), Ray McDonald (2007), Marcus Thomas (2007), Joe Cohen (2007) + 22 more
Followed Ron McBride (1990–2002) · succeeded by Kyle Whittingham (2004–2025).
| Season | 2003 | 2004 | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|
| Record & result | |||
| Record | 10-2 | 12-0 | |
| Postseason | W bowl | W bowl | |
| Outcome — opponent-adjusted efficiency percentile | |||
| Offense | — | 99 | |
| Defense | — | 87 | |
| Tendencies — play-by-play, neutral script | |||
| 1st-down pass% | — | 39.4 | |
| Red-zone pass% | — | 31.5 | |
| 4th-down go%opp. territory | — | 60.0 | |
5 NFL Draft picks: Alex Smith (2005), Sione Pouha (2005), Chris Kemoeatu (2005), Paris Warren (2005), Jonathan Fanene (2005)
Followed Gary Blackney (1991–2000) · succeeded by Gregg Brandon (2003–2008).
All-time wins
Wins at programs this site tracks, 1936–present — one consistent count for every coach, not each program’s own historically reported total.
3rd all-time at Florida
Was he good?
The data leans positive, where the data can separate from zero: every conclusive reading points the same way.
+13.9 pts at Florida · #135 of 1290 · top quarterModel fit as of 2026-09-04.
In this company
Other coaches who reached Blue-Blood-or-better at multiple programs: Nick Saban, Lane Kiffin, Ed Orgeron.