I know Steve Spurrier. And Urban Meyer is no Steve Spurrier.

Not when it comes to coaching skill. Not even after guiding the Florida Gators to a 41-14 trouncing of the Ohio State Luckeyes from the Big Overrated Conference.

Sure everyone in Scottsdale should be grateful that Meyer sent the OSU fans in overalls and straw hats whimpering to the airport.

But that doesn't mean he's even in Spurrier's same league as a coach. Spurrier is a true innovator. Meyer had to strain his brain and waste games as he figured out how to use Chris Leak, a quarterback who'd only win him a national championship.

Meyer is actually more arrogant than Spurrier though. You have to give him that. Sure, the reputations would scream otherwise. But they're wrong.

Anyone who watched Meyer raise his arm in nonchalant full cockiness after escaping an upset loss to Spurrier's undermanned Gamecocks by the extended fingers of a last-second field goal block saw that. Or just listen to an Urban Meyer press conference. Any Urban Meyer press conference.

Spurrier brings some charm with his bravado. Meyer's just a snob.

The one thing Meyer may trump Spurrier in is golf. At least if you listen to Colorado State coach Sonny Lubick.

Lubick tells Sports Illustrated a story in which after years of getting trounced by Meyer, his then assistant, in golf, he led by four strokes with one hole to play.

"It was going to be the first time I ever beat," Lubick said in SI. "...I started thinking about how much fun it was going to be razzing him. But he got into my head. I can't believe it, but he beat me. He found a way to beat me."

I've seen Steve Spurrier golf. He couldn't even beat me if he was down four strokes with a hole to play.

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