CLEMSON – Dabo Swinney has a chance to break one of Bobby Bowden’s records this week, on a field named after the iconic Florida State coach, but Swinney thinks Bowden would smile about it. After all, Swinney has written proof that he’s a part of the Bowden family.
Bowden, who passed away in 2021, won over 300 games as Florida State’s head coach, but not all of those victories came with the Seminoles as members of the ACC. Bowden coached Florida State from 1976 to 1991, when it was still independent.
With 173 career wins, Swinney enters the game tied with Bowden, a College Football Hall of Famer, for the conference record for career head coaching victories leading an ACC program.