TOMMY BOWDEN

'Tommy Bowden' (born July 10, 1954 in Birmingham, Alabama) is the head football coach at Clemson University. He is the son of Bobby Bowden, head coach at Florida State University. Bowden has never had a losing season at Clemson. He is a two-time ACC Coach of the Year. In the 2003 season, he became the first coach in NCAA history, to defeat two coaches with 200 or more wins in a one-month span, in Bobby Bowden, and Lou Holtz. His biggest win came in November 2003 against his father's #3 ranked Florida State Seminoles, 26-10 at Death Valley affectionally nicknamed the Bowden Bowl. In 2006, Clemson went to Tallahasee and won, a rare feat in college football.
Bowden previously was the head coach at Tulane, and an assistant at the University of Alabama, Auburn University, Duke University, the University of Kentucky, East Carolina University, and with his father at Florida State. His 1998 Tulane squad went 12-0 and achieved a top-10 final ranking in both polls. Bowden's Clemson teams have been to a bowl game every year he has been coaching there, except in 2004, when a brawl with rival South Carolina kept both teams from going to a bowl. Tommy is married to the former Linda White and has two children, Ryan and Lauren.

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Head coaching records

Assistant coaching resume

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Head coaching records

			Results
Season	Team	League	Conference Standing/Record	Overall Record	Bowl Results
1997	Tulane	Division I-A	2nd C-USA / 5-1	7-4
1998	Tulane	Division I-A	1st C-USA / 6-0	11-0	Resigned before Tulane's win over BYU in Liberty Bowl.
1999	Clemson	Division I-A	2nd ACC / 5-3	6-6	Lost Peach Bowl (Mississippi State)
2000	Clemson	Division I-A	2nd ACC / 6-2	9-3	Lost Gator Bowl (Virginia Tech)
2001	Clemson	Division I-A	T-4th ACC / 4-4	7-5	Won Humanitarian Bowl (Louisiana Tech)
2002	Clemson	Division I-A	T-5th ACC / 4-4	7-6	Lost Tangerine Bowl (Texas Tech)
2003	Clemson	Division I-A	3rd ACC / 5-3	9-4	Won Peach Bowl (Tennessee)
2004	Clemson	Division I-A	T-6th ACC / 4-4	6-5	Declined bowl invitation as self-imposed punishment for team fighting in a game versus the USC Gamecocks
2005	Clemson	Division I-A	3rd ACC - Atlantic / 4-4	8-4	Won Champs Sports Bowl (Colorado)
2006	Clemson	Division I-A	T-2nd ACC - Atlantic / 5-3	8-5	Lost Music City Bowl (Kentucky)
Head Coaching Totals			48-28 (63%)	78-41 (66%)	3-4 (43%)

Assistant coaching resume

College	Years	Capacity	Bowl
1991-1996	Auburn University	Offensive Coordinator/Wide Receivers	1996 Outback Bowl, 1996 Independence Bowl
1990	University of Kentucky	Offensive Coordinator/Wide Receivers	None
1987-1989	University of Alabama	Wide Receivers	1988 Sun Bowl, 1988 Hall of Fame Bowl, 1990 Sugar Bowl
1984-1986	Duke University	Offensive Coordinator/Quarterbacks	None
1981-1983	Florida State	Tight Ends	1982 Gator Bowl, 1983 Peach Bowl
1980	Auburn University	Running Backs	None
1978-1979	Florida State	Defensive Backs	1980 Orange Bowl
1977	West Virginia University	Graduate Assistant	None

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