James Patrick Tressel was born December 5, 1952 is the head football coach at The Ohio State University. He was hired before the 2001 season to replace John Cooper. Since becoming Ohio State's 22nd head football coach, Tressel's teams have played in three BCS National Championship Games. His 2002 squad won a national title and achieved the first 14–0 season record in major college football since Penn went 15–0 in 1897. Tressel has an overall record of 105–22 at Ohio State, including seven Big Ten Conference championships, a 5–4 bowl record, a 4–3 mark in BCS bowl games, and an 9–1 record against the arch-rival Michigan Wolverines. Tressel's nine wins against Michigan place him second in school history to Woody Hayes, who had 16. He is the only Ohio State head coach to win seven consecutive games against the Wolverines.
Tressel recorded his 100th career victory against Indiana State (1997) and 200th at Washington (2007), just the 19th Division 1-A coach to reach that milestone. Even more remarkable, he is the third Tressel to reach 100 wins, joining his father and his older brother, Dick, who coached at Hamline University . As a family, Lee, Jim and Dick have won 508 games, secodn only to the Bowdens.
The charitable efforts of the Tressel family are equally productive. Jim and his wife Ellen (a Youngstown State graduate) are actively involved with the Fellowship of Christian Athletes, Athletes in Action, the OSU Thompson Libraries and The Ohio State University Medical Center, particularly the James Cancer Center. They are the parents of four accomplished young adults: Zak, Carlee, Eric and Whitney.
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