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ARLINGTON, Texas -- It was two years ago, while doing television analysis for the 2013 BCS National Championship in Miami, that Urban Meyer walked onto the field, soaked it all in and sent out a mass text to everybody associated with the Ohio State football program. His message was short and sweet. The chase is on. That chase reached the finish line, the first of what may be many finish lines to come, on Monday night as both Meyer and Ohio State carved out a little slice of history. The Buckeyes won the first-ever College Football Playoff National Championship Presented by AT&T with a punishing 42-20 demolition of Oregon. And along the way, Meyer continued to chase coaching immortality, bringing to the forefront a question everybody will be asking now, and rightly so: Where does he rank among the greatest to ever coach in the college game? "I'd have to say that he's as good as any of them," said Bobby Bowden, who won two...