Hanging over the door in Joe Cocke’s den is a picture of Memorial Stadium from October 23, 1999.
What’s the significance of that game?
It is still the largest crowd in Clemson to watch a football game, as 86,092 fans showed up and packed Death Valley. It was also the first game between father and son head coaches in the history of college football, as Bobby Bowden’s Florida State Seminoles played Tommy Bowden’s Clemson Tigers in what was dubbed the Bowden Bowl.
But that’s not why the picture is significant to Cocke. For him it means a lot more.