The Coaches

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Jim Tressel

In his 10th season at OSU he is 105-22, with a career record of 240-79-2 in his 25th year of coaching. He is 5-4 in bowls and 5-3 in BCS bowl games. He has never coached against Petrino or Arkansas.

 

 

 

Bobby Petrino

Petrino is 23-14 in his third year at Arkansas and 64-23 in his seventh year as a college head coach. He is 3-2 in bowl games and 1-0 in BCS games. As the head coach of Louisville he beat Wake Forest in the 2007 Orange Bowl. He is only one of three coaches to lead two programs to a BCS game, including Urban Meyer at Utah and Florida and Nick Saban at LSU and Alabama. In addition to coaching at Louisville, he also was on the coaching staffs at Arizona State, Nevada, Utah State, and Auburn. He also coached in the NFL at Jacksonville and briefly at Atlanta. Petrino played quarterback and later coached with his dad at Carroll College in Montana. He also played basketball at Carroll. He has never coached against Tressel or Ohio State.