Urban Meyer will be inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in December.
The National Football Foundation announced Wednesday that Meyer has been voted into the College Football Hall of Fame class of 2025. He becomes the eighth Buckeye coach inducted into the Hall of Fame, following Howard Jones (1910), John Wilce (1913-28), Francis Schmidt (1934-40), Woody Hayes (1951-78), Earle Bruce (1979-87), John Cooper (1988-2000) and Jim Tressel (2001-10).
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Meyer coached at Ohio State for seven seasons (2012-18), collecting an 83-9 record with a 54-4 mark in Big Ten competition. He also led the Buckeyes to the inaugural College Football Playoff national championship in 2014, three Big Ten titles and a 7-0 record in The Game.
Before his time with the Buckeyes, Meyer spent six seasons at Florida (2005-10) and won two BCS national championships, defeating Oklahoma in 2009 and Ohio State in 2007. He also spent two years at Utah (2003-04), where he won a Liberty Bowl and Fiesta Bowl, and another two seasons at Bowling Green (2001-02).
Across his 17 total seasons as an FBS head coach at Bowling Green, Utah, Florida and OSU, Meyer won 85.4% of the games he coached – the third-highest FBS winning percentage ever.
An Ashtabula, Ohio, native, Meyer graduated from the Saint John School in 1982. He then spent two years in the Atlanta Braves’ minor league system after the organization selected him with its 13th-round pick in the 1982 MLB Draft. He concurrently played defensive back for Cincinnati before receiving a bachelor's degree in 1986.
Meyer’s coaching career started at St. Xavier High School in 1985. He then served as a graduate assistant at Ohio State (1986-87) and held assistant coach positions at Illinois State (1988-89), Colorado State (1990-95) and Notre Dame (1996-2000) before his first head coaching job at Bowling Green.
