Drew Davis felt like he was a teenager again while riding shotgun in dad’s car. No longer a rebellious teen, Drew, 26, enjoyed this ride. “There was no better 15 minutes,” says Butch Davis’s son, an assistant for his father at Florida International.
Drew’s roommate and ride, fellow staff member Bryn Renner, had left with family to celebrate the Panthers’ stunning upset of big, bad Miami, leaving Drew without a way back to their apartment—except for his old man. It was a fitting scene, Butch and Drew in the car together, driving off FIU’s campus in the aftermath of this family’s most indelible victory ever, 30–24 over the same Hurricanes that dad once captained and where son once dreamed of playing.