Someone mentioned this on reddit and I'd never seen it before. Right after he was hired he said:
Tressel said he understood the importance of the Michigan game. His first year at Youngstown State, he said he moved the Penguins' game against rival Akron to a Friday night so it wouldn't conflict with the Wolverines-Buckeyes game.
"You can't play another game on the day you play the Ohio State-Michigan game," he said. "They should just leave one day, and no one in America gets to play but those two teams."
