Urban Meyer
Urban Meyer is the head football coach at the University of Florida, a position he assumed in 2005. His career with the Gators includes winning the 2006 SEC championship and later the BCS championship. A 1986 graduate of the University of Cincinnati, where he played defensive back for the Bearcats, Meyer is a two-time National Coach of the Year, with more than two decades of coaching experience, including six as a head coach. His first collegiate coaching position was a two-year stint as a graduate assistant at The Ohio State University. Before that, he had spent one year as a defensive backs coach at Saint Xavier High School in Cincinnati, Ohio. He then spent the next 13 years as an assistant—two at Illinois State, six at Colorado State, and finally five at Notre Dame. In 2001, Meyer took his first head coaching job at Bowling Green, where he engineered the greatest turnaround in the NCAA earning Mid-American Conference Coach of the Year honors in the process. After two seasons at Bowling Green, he took the job at Utah in 2003. In 2004, he led the Running Utes to an undefeated season.
