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Bobby Bowden says Florida State couldn’t win in SEC

By Josh Hill

Dec 31, 2014; Los Angeles, CA, USA; Florida State Seminoles helmet at press conference at the L.A. Hotel Downtown in advance of the 2015 Rose Bowl. Mandatory Credit: Kirby Lee-USA TODAY Sports
Dec 31, 2014; Los Angeles, CA, USA; Florida State Seminoles helmet at press conference at the L.A. Hotel Downtown in advance of the 2015 Rose Bowl. Mandatory Credit: Kirby Lee-USA TODAY Sports /
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Former Florida State head coach Bobby Bowden said that the SEC is too tough for the Seminoles to win in, so he kept them in the ACC. 

The SEC is one of the best and most prestigious conference in all of sports, as it contains programs that are football factories for future NFL players. But this year saw the Florida State Seminoles produce the most NFL Draft prospects selected, but leave it to old man Bobby Bowden to rain on everyone’s parade.

Bowden stated on the Paul Finebaum Show that he thought the SEC was too tough for Florida State to win in and achieve the goal of winning the National Championship.

"“I felt, Paul, that it was too difficult to win through the SEC to win a national championship. I felt like our best route would be to go through the ACC and that did prove out to be correct. But, I don’t know if we could have made it through the SEC.”"

Get off of Bobby Bowden’s lawn and take your fancy SEC with it.

This is a weird thing to say, as it seems to cheapen your legacy by admitting you stayed with lesser competition to inflate the status of your program. Then again, when you’re a man who has had most of his wins vacated for being a good coach but a suspect leader, you don’t have much to lose.

Bowden buried Jameis Winston for being an embarrassment to Florida State — something ol’ Bobby would know plenty about. But he apparently didn’t stop there and continued to bury his old school with this little swipe at not being as good as the SEC.

This is a clear swipe at the current regime too, as Bowden was historically dominant against the SEC in his heyday, and probably could have thrived in the SEC had the Noles switched conferences.

Florida State was a football factory in 2014, but Bobby Bowden still isn’t impressed — or is just still grumpy about being pushed out in favor of a guy named Jimbo.

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