If all goes as expected, Urban Meyer will own another record by the end of this football season.
Ohio State's head coach is on pace to break Oklahoma's Bob Stoops' record for most wins by a head coach in his first 15 seasons. Stoops won 160 games from 1999-2013. With a victory on Saturday night at No. 8 Wisconsin, Meyer will tie Stoops, according to the football program's Twitter account.
.@OSUCoachMeyer is 1 victory away from tying the record for most wins by a coach in his first 15 seasons. pic.twitter.com/qBDgXnFJxb
— Ohio State Football (@OhioStateFB) October 13, 2016
Meyer is in his 15th season as a head coach of a Division I program. He averaged 11 victories through his first 14 seasons—two each at Bowling Green and Utah, six at Florida and four at Ohio State.
Meyer has his Buckeyes at No. 2 in this season's rankings and at 5-0, so he is more than on pace to not only break Stoops' mark but make the new record very difficult to match. In his first four seasons at Ohio State, Meyer won at least 12 games in each of them. Twelve victories in 2016 will give Meyer 166 through his first 15 seasons, an average of 11 per year.
He is also 19-0 in true road games at Ohio State, a school record and owns winning streaks of 24 and 23 games.
Meyer is the nation's winningest active coach with at least 10 years of experience, owning a winning percentage of .855 (159-27). He currently sits third on the winningest coaches all-time list, trailing only a pair of Notre Dame legends. Knute Rockne is first with an .881 winning percentage while Frank Leahy is second at .864.
