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          Most underrated coaches of 2012

          Urban Meyer was at the center of a remarkable, and yet doomed-to-be-overlooked OSU campaign. Kirk Irwin/Getty Images
          • Travis Haney, ESPN Staff WriterDec 17, 2012, 09:22 AM ET
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          I admittedly didn't spend much time examining my Heisman ballot; there wasn't much need. But the vote for coach of the year? That was a far more difficult one to cast. I ultimately went with Penn State's Bill O'Brien, for obvious reasons, but Notre Dame's Brian Kelly, Texas A&M's Kevin Sumlin and Stanford's David Shaw, among others, did outstanding jobs and merited serious thought.