A college football studio analyst for FOX Sports, Urban Meyer is a former head football coach for Ohio State and the University of Florida.
Well-known as one of the most successful football coaches of all time, Meyer began his coaching career at Bowling Green, turning a team who had previously lost six consecutive seasons, into a Top 25 programme. He has since gone on to coach teams to winning three national championships, starting with the University of Florida Gators who won the national championships in both 2006 and 2008. During his immensely successful six years with the team, Meyer went on to be named Coach of the Decade by The Sporting News and Sports Illustrated. He later went on to coach the Ohio State Buckeyes who under Meyer’s guidance became one of the top college football teams and went on to win the national championships in 2014. During his 17 seasons as a head coach, Meyer was ranked with the third-highest winning percentage in college history.
In 2019, Meyer joined the team at FOX Sports as a college football studio analyst alongside Reggie Bush, Matt Leinart, Brady Quinn and Rob Stone. Of his philanthropy work, Meyer with his wife Shelley founded the Urban and Shelley Meyer Fund for Cancer Research, dedicated to advancing research for all types of cancer and recruit experts to The Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center.