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University of Florida October 17, 2005
Urban Meyer, a two-time National Coach of the Year and one of the nation's top young coaching talents, was named the 21st head football coach at the University of Florida on December 4th, 2004. Meyer, 40, possesses 19 years of college coaching experience, including four as a head coach. Meyer turned around the football program at Bowling Green State University in 2001-02 and engineered a reversal of fortune at the University of Utah in 2003-04. Meyer, who sports a 11-1 record against Bowl Championship Series teams as a head coach, guided the Utes to a perfect 12-0 campaign in 2004 and an berth against Pittsburgh in the Fiesta Bowl. He has an overall mark of 39-8 (.830) and is 24-6 (.800) in conference play as head coach. His .830 winning percentage ranks fifth nationally among active college coaches during the last four years. Meyer earned multiple National Coach of the Year honors after leading Utah's to a perfect 12-0 season, the school's first in 75 years. Meyer collected the Home Depot National Coach of the Year, the George Munger Award for the Collegiate Coach of the Year presented by the Maxwell Club and the Eddie Robinson Coach of the Year (Named by the Football Writers Association of America). He also was named National Coach of the Year by Pro Football Weekly and earned the Woody Hayes Trophy Award and the Victor Award. With it's post-season bid to the Fiesta Bowl, Utah made history by becoming the first school from a non-Bowl Championship Series conference to earn a berth in a BSC Bowl and Utah finished as the outright 2004 MWC champion to become the only back-to-back outright winners in the league's history.
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