COLUMBUS, Ohio -- Jim Tressel shuns the past - even when it involves perhaps the greatest night of his coaching career.
When asked Tuesday about his Ohio State team's victory over Miami in the 2002 national title game, Tressel sounded about as excited as someone awaiting dental surgery.
The coach knows that what happened on that night in the Arizona desert has little or no bearing on Saturday's first meeting with the Hurricanes since. Still, every time the subject of that game came up, a game that provided Ohio State's first national championship after a 34-year wait, Tressel acted as if he were on the losing end.
But he and his players both know how much what happened eight years ago means to both schools today.
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