Florida State Seminoles

The Florida State Seminoles were led by Bobby Bowden for the final time as the stalwart head coach is stepping aside allowing Offensive Coordinator Jimbo Fischer to take over the head spot. Coach Bowden had a rough season as he watched his team 7-6 (4-4 in the ACC) and was ranked as high as # 18 in week three but that was the last time the team was ranked in 2009.

Things were looking up after the Seminoles beat #9 ranked Brigham Young in Provo 54-28 but the team then went on a three game losing streak that the team could never fully recover from. They ended the season with a 4-2 record and the final game of the season was a non conference game against #1 ranked Florida in the Battle for the Governor’s Cup. Florida won that outing 37-10 in front of 90,907 fans in Gainesville.

In the Gator Bowl, the Seminoles matched up against the 16th ranked West Virginia Mountaineers. Coach Bowden’s 34-year career came to a memorable and quite fitting end as he watched his Seminoles come back from a 14-3 first quarter outing to win the game 33-21.

Coach Jimbo Fischer, a former NCAA Division III National Player of the Year at Samford University in Alabama, was the offensive coordinator for LSU between 2000 and 2006 and from 2006 until the end of last season he was the offensive coordinator and QB coach. From 2007 on, Coach Fischer was the “head coach-in-waiting.

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