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  Image Tommy Bowden-Clemson 2006jpg
  Caption Bowden on September 24 , 2006 against North Carolina
  Birthplace Birmingham, Alabama
  Sport Football
  College Clemson University
  Title Head Coach
  CurrentRecord 60-38
  OverallRecord 78-42
  Awards C-USA Coach of the Year (1998)
  Championships C-USA Champion (1998)
  CFbDWID 214
  Player Y
  Years 1973-76
  Team West Virginia
  Position Wide Receiver
  Coach Y
  CoachYears 1997-98<br />1999-Present
  CoachTeams Tulane <br /> Clemson


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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