When former Ohio State head coach Jim Tressel took the helm in Columbus, it had been 33 years–since 1968–since a Buckeye head coach hoisted a national championship trophy.
Tressel, with a talented roster full of college football hall of fame coach John Cooper's players–and a necessary influx of his own–shocked the sports world less than two years after being hired when he led Ohio State to a championship, knocking off a Miami Hurricane team that some consider the greatest collection of college talent ever.
Ten years and ten months after Tressel was named Ohio State's head coach, Urban Meyer, after a year-long coaching hiatus, commandeered the Good Ship Fickell and helped right a floundering vessel that had been rocked by scandal and a 2011 football season that will likely go down as the worst you'll ever see by an Ohio State football team…in your life.