Urban Meyer, the undisputed king of Big Ten football, is in trouble. That much is certain. The nasty allegations that a longtime assistant coach was a serial abuser, exposed by veteran reporter Brett McMurphy, has put a dark cloud over his Ohio State program.
And that leads to the biggest question in college football now: How long will it even be his program?
If Meyer knew about former assistant Zach Smith's alleged abuse of his wife in 2015, as Murphy claims in a bombshell report on Wednesday, and then lied about it repeatedly at Big Ten media days last month, the answer is simple.