I’m not going to pretend that I knew Bobby Bowden well. But I know people who knew Bowden well. Some of them covered him while he was at FSU, others worked with him in FSU’s sports media department. And to a person they agree that in this rare occasion, the man and the myth matched. By all accounts Bobby Bowden was a genuinely good human being.
Certainly not the kind of person to run up the score.
Which just accentuates how one-sided was the Duke-Florida State rivalry when Bowden was at Florida State.
Of course, calling this a rivalry is pushing it more than a little.