Terry Bowden Biography

With a legendary last name and a colorful personality, Terry Bowden had great success over five decades in college football. Bowden is the son of coaching legend Bobby Bowden. After a short playing career at West Virginia, Bowden became a graduate assistant under his father at FSU, and became the head coach at Salem College in 1983. Bowden’s success at Salem earned him the position of head coach at Samford University in 1987. After five years at Samford, Bowden was chosen to be the next Auburn University head coach in 1992, where he would go undefeated in his first season. 

Following his resignation from Auburn in 1998, Bowden would go on to be an analyst and broadcaster for ABC Sports, until finally returning to coaching in 2008 with the University of Northern Alabama. Experiencing success with Northern Alabama, Bowden was hired as the head coach of the University of Akron in 2011. He coached the Zips for seven seasons, winning the MAC East Division in 2017. Bowden finished his coaching career with three years at Louisiana Monroe. Overall, he went 185-140-2 as a head coach. 

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