The Coaches

Jim Tressel
In his eighth season at OSU, he has a record of 77-17. In his 23rd year of his coaching career, including time at YSU, he is 212-74-2. He has guided OSU to one national championship.












Bret Bielema
In his third season as a head coach, all at Wisconsin, he is 24-6. After his second season he was 21-5, and was only the third coach in Big Ten history with that many victories in two seasons. The other two coaches being Michigan's Fielding Yost with 22 and Tressel with 21. He is the fourth youngest coach in the NCAA at age 38, with Northwestern Coach Pat Fitzgerald the youngest at 33. After playing at Iowa he worked as a graduate assistant and then a Linebackers assistant coach at his alma mater. For two years he was an assistant defensive coordinator at Kansas State. Bielema joined wisconsin as a defensive coordinator for two years prior to being named head coach.