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Urban Meyer Rips 'Idiots On Social Media' After Ohio State's Championship

Originally posted on The Spun | By Hunter Hodies | Last updated Jan 22, 2025 7:43 PM ET

Ohio State is three days removed from winning its first college football national title in a decade under former head coach Urban Meyer.

The Buckeyes ran the table and won all four of their College Football Playoff games, including Monday's National Championship Game over the Notre Dame Fighting Irish, to win it all.

Despite a devastating fourth consecutive loss to their bitter rival, the Michigan Wolverines, the Buckeyes demonstrated improbable resilience, winning four straight CFP games as the eighth seed.

Meyer is super happy for his former program but isn't thrilled with how much criticism his successor, Ryan Day, has gotten.

"I coached a long time and a lot has been made of it and Coach Day and the pressures of coaching at a place like Ohio State," Meyer said on "The Triple Option Podcast," (first transcribed by 247Sports). "I made the comment that that's not gonna change. The thing that has got to change and has changed is the idiots on social media that don't sign their name to stuff."

Meyer is referring to the fans who run "burner" accounts on social media that offer outlandish opinions with no name or profile picture.

Day has done a tremendous job with the Buckeyes and now has a national title on his resume. He can start solving the Wolverines' problem next season when the Buckeyes travel to Ann Arbor to play them at the end of November.

The Buckeyes will also go for a repeat next season but won't have some of their top playmakers, including Emeka Egbuka, Will Howard, and TreVeyon Henderson.

They'll open the 2025 season on August 30 against the Texas Longhorns.

This article first appeared on The Spun and was syndicated with permission.

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