It seems like whenever a big-time college football job comes open, former Ohio State head coach Urban Meyer sees his name lobbed about as a potential candidate. No matter that Meyer has now been removed from the college game for seven years now, and has a pretty cushy job with Fox’s Big Noon College Football crew.
So far, during the 2025 college football season, there are eight Power Four jobs open before we even hit November. Premier Jobs like Penn State, Florida, and LSU are vacant and will draw a lot of interest from the top candidates out there, but according to Meyer, that ship seems to have sailed.
When talking to Cleveland TV reporter Kellyanne Stitts, Meyer seemingly took his name out of the running for any job besides the one he has on television today. “I don’t have a desire (to coach),” Meyer told Stitts.
Now, I guess if we are splitting hairs, that’s not giving a firm no, but just addressing that there’s not a strong desire to get back in the game, and who can blame Meyer? He won two BCS national championships with Florida and also brought a College Football Playoff national title to Ohio State before retiring at the end of the 2018 season. He briefly got back into coaching at the NFL level with the Jacksonville Jaguars, but to say that was a disaster would be kind to dumpster fires and massive plumbing leaks.
So there you have it. As if there was really any truth to suggestions that Meyer would get back into the college game, this seems to put that at rest once again. However, about OSU assistant Brian Hartline …
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