If you find yourself, during this week without a Buckeye game, getting tired of 60-point blowouts and 400-yard passing games, go back in time to a period when points and yards were harder to come by. Go back and re-live “Tressel Ball.” August, 2002 Although the Ohio State Buckeyes found themselves ranked #13 in the AP preseason poll, Buckeye fans were less optimistic. The previous year Jim Tressel had replaced John Cooper, who had difficulty (to say the least) beating Michigan. Tressel’s first team went 7-5, losing to South Carolina, the same team that handed Cooper his final OSU loss – and his walking papers. By any definition, 2001 was a ho-hum year. The offense averaged 26 points a game (62nd in the nation), while the defense gave up 20.3 (24th). That slim point margin makes for a 7-5 season. Tressel was an Ohio guy, from Youngstown; in fact, in…
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