The Coaches

Luke Fickell
Luke Fickell is 3-2 in his first year as a head coach. Luke Fickell has been an assistant coach for 13 years. He was a graduate assistant at OSU under John Cooper in 1999. He was a defensive line coach at Akron from 2000-2001. Early in Jim Tressel's tenure at OSU, he hired Fickell as the special teams coordinator. He eventually coached the linebackers and was a co-defensive coordinator. Going into this season he was the assistant head coach, and was promoted in May to head coach, after Jim Tressel retired. Prior to coaching, Fickell was a four year starter for OSU, from 1992-1996. During his career, OSU was 41-8-1, won two Big Ten Championships and won the 1997 Rose Bowl. He started a school record 50 consecutive games. After graduation he spent one year on the injured reserve team for the New Orleans Saints.



Bo Pelini
Bo Pelini is 34-13 in his fourth season. He was the defensive coordinator at Nebraska for five years and served as the interim coach in the 2003 Alamo Bowl game. He also served as the co-defensive coordinator at Oklahoma for a year before serving as the defensive coordinator at LSU for three seasons (including the 2007 national championship game against OSU.) Pelini also was an assistant coach in the NFL for nine season. Prior to coaching, Pelini was a four-year letterman as a safety at Ohio State from 1987-1990.