Urban Meyer: Ohio State expects to win the national championship

It appeared for a good time last college football season that the Ohio State Buckeyes were destined for a meeting with the Florida State Seminoles out in Pasadena for the national championship. However, after a perfect regular season, they were blindsided by the Michigan State Spartans in the Big Ten title game, and the championship aspirations were gone.

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Despite the loss, though, there are still hopes for this team this season to contend for the title, and Urban Meyer agrees with them.

On the Dan Patrick Show on Tuesday, Meyer reiterated that the expectations are indeed that this team runs the table once again and heads to the College Football Playoff, where they will get the chance to get the title that eluded them last season.

“I think it’s real,” Meyer told Patrick. “I felt it on our team last year during our win streak. I try to watch that. I been through it now for quite a while. I try to give some experience to it and focus on that task at hand. No one forced these players to come to Ohio State. No one forced these coaches. You get these top five, six, seven programs and that’s the way it is. You have to win every game you play, embrace it and try to do it. If you can’t, you rebound and try to win the next one. We have a good handle on that here.”

While this team did suffer some losses from last year’s squad, they have probably the best quarterback in the Big Ten coming back in Braxton Miller, as well as defensive standouts Joey Bosa and Michael Bennett.

What do you think? Can the Buckeyes win the title this season? Let us know your thoughts in the comments below.

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