Bucknuts recently covered the mid-week pressers and this what they had to say about it, including quotes from Jim Tressel: Growing up in Ohio, you could count on this time of year, when the air begins to chill, the leaves have fallen, Thanksgiving is around the corner, and OSU-Michigan will partake in The Game every year on the Saturday before Thanksgiving. Furthermore, the idea is that it will help recruiting by being able to ensure kids a week off in the middle of the season.Īs a person who loves tradition, though, this saddens me greatly.

There are several reasons for doing this, not the least of which is that it theoretically will help the elite teams in the conference avoid a mid-season letdown game and stay undefeated, thus giving the conference a better shot of getting a team into the BCS Title Game.

It was a few years back when the Big Ten first started kicking around the idea of adding a mid-season bye week for every team in the Big Ten, thus extending the season from 12 weeks to 13 weeks. Sometimes you can hear a story about a future event that’s a couple years away and you can forget about it until the time draws near.

Tell me why im waiting osu