Can a Jim Tressel team win the national championship?
The very question seems almost absurd.
Under Tressel,
Ohio State has appeared in three BCS National Championship
Games and captured the 2002 crown.
During his 15-year
coaching tenure at...
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Can a Jim Tressel team win the national championship?
The very question seems almost absurd.
Under Tressel,
Ohio State has appeared in three BCS National Championship
Games and captured the 2002 crown.
During his 15-year
coaching tenure at Youngstown State, Tressel captured four
Division I-AA national titles.
This season, a roster loaded with future NFL talent
including 15 returning starters begins what it hopes will be
a championship-caliber season ranked No.
2 nationally in
both the Associated Press writers’ and USA Today coaches’
preseason polls.
But should this year’s team prove to be more
2002 than 2006 or 2007, it would be the first Ohio State team
entirely built by Tressel to earn a national championship.
So is a Tressel team capable of bringing home the crystal football in Columbus? The answer depends on how you
define a Jim Tressel team.
Off To A Good Start
When Tressel took over Jan.
18, 2001, for the fired John
Cooper, he inherited a program
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