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Gary Oscar Moeller (/ ˈ m oʊ l ər /; January 26, 1941 – July 11, 2022) was an American football coach best known for being head coach at the University of Michigan from 1990 to 1994. During his five seasons at Michigan, he won 44 games, lost 13 and tied 3 for a winning percentage of .758.
Gary Moeller. Career Record: 8 Years, 50-37-6, .570 Win% (at major schools) Bowl Record: 5 Games, 4-1, .800 Win% (at major schools) 2x Big Ten COY.
- Michigan's Lloyd Carr vs. Ohio State's John Cooper
- Ohio State's Jim Tressel vs. Michigan's Lloyd Carr
- Michigan's Rich Rodriguez vs. Ohio State's Jim Tressel
- Michigan's Brady Hoke vs. Ohio State's Luke Fickell
- Ohio State's Urban Meyer vs. Michigan's Brady Hoke
- Michigan's Jim Harbaugh vs. Ohio State's Urban Meyer
- Ohio State's Ryan Day vs. Michigan's Jim Harbaugh
Cooper was the head coach of Arizona State from 1985-1987. He was a popular coaching candidate -- think Tom Herman of the 1980s --as he was being considered by Texas at one point.The Longhorns went with David McWilliams and a year later Ohio State hired Cooper, who was 25-9-2 in three season with the Sun Devils. Cooper was 0-5-1 against Schembechle...
As dominant as Carr was against Cooper's Ohio State teams, the exact opposite can be said of Jim Tressel's Ohio State teams. Tressel was an FCS legend at Youngstown State when he was hired in 2001. He had been a former assistant under Bruce in the 1980s and he become obsessed with beating Michigan. And he did. Against Carr, Tressel was 6-1, includi...
Carr and Michigan parted ways after the 2007 season. Michigan went 9-4 in 2007 and was 11-2 in 2006, but the five-straight losses to Ohio State couldn't be tolerated. Enter: Rich "RichRod" Rodriguez. Rodriguez was 60-26 at his alma mater of West Virginia from 2001-2007. He ran an innovative, tempo-focused offense that was supposed to modernize the ...
A scandal broke out at the end of 2010 for the Ohio State when quarterback Terrelle Pryor and other Ohio State players were caught trading memorabilia for tattoos.Tressel lied to the NCAA about the issue and was fired. Defensive coordinator Luke Fickell, an Ohio State alum, was made the interim head coach for the Buckeyes. Meanwhile, in Ann Arbor, ...
Urban Meyer was out of football for just a season when he ended his second retirement. At Florida, Meyer won two national championships, including beating Ohio State for the title in 2006. At Ohio State (spoiler alert), Urban Meyer never lost to Michigan. He was 7-0 from 2012-2018. Urban Meyer at Ohio State: ‘Do I have anything in my contract that ...
Michigan hired its former quarterback turned head coach Jim Harbaughat the end of the 2014 season. Harbaugh had led the San Francisco 49ers to the Super Bowl in 2012 and his hiring at Michigan was viewed as a watershed moment for the program that gone 31-20 in four seasons under Hoke. Harbaugh enters the 2021 Ohio State game 59-23 at Michigan. He h...
Meyer retired at the end of the 2018 season and handed the reigns over to offensive coordinator Ryan Day. It didn't take long for the New Hampshire nativeto engross himself in the Ohio State-Michigan rivalry. Harbaugh and Day faced off in 2019 and Ohio State won 56-27 for Day's first win in the series. The rivalry became inflamed in 2020 before the...
- Joe Harrington
Sep 1, 2012 · Woody Hayes and Bo Schembechler are legendary, in part because of their rivalry in the Ohio State-Michigan game. But other coaches have done better. Here's a rundown of coaching records in...
Nov 21, 2016 · Record vs. Ohio State: 3-1-1 Moeller was undefeated (3-0-1) in his first four games against Ohio State while winning three Big Ten titles before a 22-6 loss to the Buckeyes in 1994.
In the fourth installment of the series on the Michigan-Ohio State rivalry, Moeller was the captain of the 1962 Buckeyes team that thrashed Michigan, 28-0. Ohio State finished the season with a record of six wins and three defeats, while Michigan finished with two wins and seven defeats.
In 1941, Michigan and Ohio State met for the first time with each team ranked in the AP Poll, which had started in 1936. The 14th-ranked Buckeyes played the 5th-ranked Wolverines to a 20–20 tie in Ann Arbor. In 1945, Michigan quarterback Howard Yerges led Michigan to a 7–3 victory over Ohio State.
