Quotable Quotes

"Was this the same team that lost to Florida by something like 183 points a week earlier? FSU fans have spent the past month debating whether their best option is to take away Jeff Bowden's Etch a Sketch or put his old man on an ice floe.

Things were so bad, the Warrick Dunn Foundation offered to build the junior Bowden a house anywhere he wanted, as long as it wasn't within 100 miles of a headset." David Whitley, Orlando Sentinel

"Congressional testimony will reveal that FSU's defense came back from the dead. It will show that Bowden wasn't the only one who was taking the criticism personally. His entire team played as if Marcus Vick had made fun of Ann Bowden's hairdo." David Whitley, Orlando Sentinel

"Bowden has won national championships. Yet what he did against Virginia Tech might be one of the best single-game coaching jobs he has ever done." Mike Freeman, The Times-Union

"Coach Bowden told us what a great job we had done," linebacker Ernie Sims said. "[He said] 'Keep it up in third quarter and let's start fast.' This win wipes out all those bad memories and those losses we've had this last month. All of those losses don't mean anything now. We're going to South Beach."