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Urban Meyer says IU game is only 'adversity' this year for Ohio State
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Indiana football coach Curt Cignetti has earned at least one fan: former Ohio State coach Urban Meyer. As for Ohio State? Meyer has questions after the team's upset loss in the Big Ten title game.
"I don't know enough about this team," Meyer, who led the Buckeyes to the national title in 2014, said shortly after the Buckeyes' 13-10 loss to the Hoosiers.
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While the game was similar to the one that ended Ohio State's regular season last year, Meyer said differences in the squad and the season leave him with questions.
"There's been zero adversity," Meyer said. "This is it."
Immediately after the game, Meyer was snowed by Indiana's performance, particularly given the program's unimpressive legacy across the history of college football.
"What happened?" Meyer said as the postgame show began. "This is the greatest turnaround in the history of our sport."
Ohio State also lost its last game heading into last year's College Football Playoff: a 13-10 heartbreaker against Michigan . But Meyer highlighted a key difference between the 2024 squad and this one: experience.
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Last year's team was led by Will Howard , a fifth-year senior transfer at quarterback. This year's team has a redshirt freshman at quarterback in Julian Sayin, along with an overall more unproven squad behind him.
"So I'm anxious to watch," Meyer said of the upcoming College Football Playoff.
IU is expected to take the No. 1 seed in the CFP. Ohio State finds out its seeding Dec. 7.
This article originally appeared on The Columbus Dispatch: Ohio State football loses to Indiana. See what Urban Meyer said
