Several months before he passed away last summer, Bobby Bowden was on the phone reminiscing about the heyday of college football in Florida.
I asked him about a quote I’ve used many times over the years in which Bobby bragged about the dynastic dominance of Miami, Florida State and Florida in the 1980s and 1990s.
“You can forget about the Big Ten, the Big 12, the big this and the big that,” Bobby said. “The toughest conference in the country is the Big Florida. If you can win that one, you’re going to be in the running for the national championship.”
