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Out of the Gate: Comparing the First Four Years of Woody, Earle, Coop and Tressel Alongside Urban Meyer

I find it a bit hard to believe Urban Meyer is just a little over two months from kicking off his fifth season at the helm of Ohio State's football program.

Time flies when you're largely having fun stomping rivals and collecting trophies, I suppose.

In an effort to put Meyer's heady four-year start in Columbus into perspective, I dove into the first four years of Ohio State's former head coaches since the beginning of the loosely defined modern era – Woody Hayes, Earle Bruce, John Cooper and Jim Tressel – and here's how they stack up against the Ashtabula Assassin.