Exclusive Week 11 CFB Insights with Coach Terry Bowden

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00:00I always love talking to coach Terry Bowden on Fridays.

00:05You got to check out the Bowden Blitz on SportsGrid.

00:08It's badass and you can follow it at the Bowden Blitz, a legendary career, a legendary family

00:16and a badass on coast to coast.

00:18Coach, I want to start with what you and I were just talking about.

00:20So you know, when Bear Bryant was there in Tuscaloosa, and then when Nick Saban was in

00:28Tuscaloosa, they had it.

00:30They had it.

00:31I mean, like the it thing that we're talking about.

00:34And then they had seven coaches that didn't have it.

00:37And then I don't have anything bad to say about DeBoer.

00:41I just know that that football team doesn't have it.

00:44No, and you're exactly right.

00:47That's a unique place.

00:48And having coached at three universities in Alabama and having coached against the Crimson

00:54Tide, I have a great feel for it.

00:57It's hard to be the head coach in Alabama because they can sense it.

01:01It's a unique personality and the players and the team are a part of that team.

01:07And so Bear Bryant, then seven coaches, then Nick Saban.

01:11And I've said before that DeBoer was a really good choice.

01:14I just want to see how you would react to it.

01:17And right now, I don't think they can go into LSU and beat LSU at night.

01:21I just don't think, see that Alabama team doing that.

01:25I mean, this guy Kelly, his best work has been under the lights at Death Valley and

01:33not during the sunshine.

01:34In the daytime, they've been beatable.

01:36At nighttime, they've been unbeatable.

01:39I tell you, I've coached there in the nighttime a lot.

01:42It's almost impossible to win.

01:44The crowd gets bigger.

01:46They get louder.

01:47It's a tough place.

01:48I think they've been drinking all day, but they are hard to beat.

01:52I've been there with Florida State.

01:54I've been there with Auburn.

01:55And I'm telling you, it's the most unique place you've ever seen.

01:58They say Texas A&M too, and I've coached there as well, is about the same.

02:03But I don't think at night, there's any stadium tougher to beat.

02:06And I don't think Alabama is going to win this one at LSU this week.

02:09Listen, I've been to both.

02:12And I will give you that Kyle Field is unique, and it's the 12th man and all the rest, and

02:19they got a big crowd and a lot of people there.

02:22But it cannot, I'm sorry, it cannot hold a candle to Death Valley.

02:27Let's stop here.

02:28I mean, I'm not at Kyle Field.

02:31I got seven or eight stadiums better than that.

02:33I'll be here all day.

02:34I'm here all the week.

02:36I'll tell you better places to play football.

02:38And you know it.

02:40You know it.

02:41Well, you know, like I say, I live in Louisiana now.

02:45I've coached at ULM.

02:47I've been here and I coached against them.

02:51And I have coached at so many places.

02:53I have been to Michigan.

02:54I've been to Southern California, to Alabama, to Georgia.

02:59It's a unique experience there.

03:01I do have to think it's something to do with the personality of the Cajuns and the way

03:06they react at night.

03:09It's an incredible experience.

03:11And I don't think Alabama, I think, I mean, Alabama is a good football team.

03:13I don't think they're as good as LSU right now.

03:16If LSU can get rid of throwing, if they can run the football just a little bit, I think

03:20they win the game.

03:21All right.

03:22Let's talk about Miami and Georgia Tech.

03:25Now listen, this game reminds me of the Duke game.

03:28I don't think, you know, Duke was 6-2.

03:30They're better than Georgia Tech.

03:31Georgia Tech's been very average this year.

03:34They've had their problems.

03:35And I know everyone thinks they're going to beat Miami, but Duke went up on Miami and

03:39then they got their ass spanked.

03:42Now I think this team may throw a 10-minute punch, but I still don't think they can stop

03:47this freight train.

03:48No, I mean, I mean, I mean, you're talking about Cam Ward is the number one quarterback

03:52in the country, stat-wise.

03:54They have the number one offense in the country.

03:56And I think a team like Georgia Tech, whose quarterback is injured, who may not play,

04:02their day is over.

04:03They started the season with a win over Florida State, but they have not progressed throughout

04:07the season.

04:08And a team that likely don't have their quarterback in Miami is smelling that playoff.

04:13They're smelling that championship.

04:15And I think the more this thing goes in the season, the better Miami gets.

04:19Were you surprised that the AD said that Billy Napier was coming back to Gainesville?

04:26And I think they're going to get beat in Austin at Memorial by the Longhorns.

04:31But do you think they're making the right choice in bringing him back?

04:34Because the bottom line is he's been there and all he does is lose.

04:38You know, it's funny.

04:39He was with me at Auburn.

04:40He was, he was the assistant AD when I was at Auburn, and I'm not so sure he makes the

04:44final decision.

04:45I just, I've been around this business too long and ADs don't make that final call.

04:51They're told what to do.

04:53Now you want to say, we're with you, do the best that you can, but I'm not so sure he's

04:59going to make the final call at Florida.

05:01So let's just wait and see, because there's a lot of things and a lot of factors that

05:05come involved.

05:06Texas beat them easily?

05:09Texas is going to, the only thing with Texas this year is a matter of how much they're

05:13going to win against them.

05:14I think Texas is going to win the game.

05:17It's just, can you go with 21 points?

05:19I'll be honest with you.

05:20They've got a walk-on quarterback playing at quarterback for Florida, and I think Texas

05:24gets the 21.

05:25I think they, they, they take the spread and they go with it.

05:27Yeah.

05:28I do too.

05:29Once they lost their quarterback Langway, they're in trouble.

05:31Georgia at Ole Miss.

05:33I think Georgia is the most dangerous team in that 12 team field.

05:37They can beat anybody.

05:38Well, you got it.

05:39Georgia is, I mean, I mean, they're really something, Ole Miss and Georgia.

05:43It's a, it's going to be a great game.

05:45I still wonder about Ole Miss when they play the better team.

05:48Georgia continues to play better and better.

05:51But their quarterback, Carson Beck has thrown interceptions.

05:55He's not been the quarterback that he was last year.

05:58He has got to keep turning the ball over.

06:00I know he's heard about it all week, but I think he will solve that problem.

06:04I don't think you'll see him throwing interceptions like he did three of them last week.

06:08And if he doesn't throw interceptions, I don't think Georgia, anybody can beat Georgia.

06:12So I was watching the Indiana game last week, as you know, my alma mater, and I always went

06:17there for basketball.

06:18I worked for Bob Knight.

06:19I never once went to a football game in five years.

06:22Now all of a sudden they're good.

06:24I mean, they mean business offensively, 47 plus a week defensively, top five in the country

06:31at everything, stopping a run, giving up yards, giving up points.

06:35So they took a punch from Michigan State and then beat the living snot out of them in East

06:40Lansing.

06:41And I don't even think Michigan's very much better than Michigan State.

06:44What happens in Bloomington tomorrow?

06:46But you know what?

06:47I don't question who's going to win this game.

06:50I question where Kurt Cignetti is going to be next year or the year after.

06:54Oh, God.

06:55Oh, God.

06:56Who would have thought Michigan would be going into Indiana and an underdog after winning

07:03the national championship.

07:05And so I know Kurt Cignetti, I've known him all my life.

07:08And I'm thinking this guy is going to go somewhere very quick.

07:12Oh, God.

07:13You know, my day was going great and then you had to come along and kick me in the teeth

07:18like a horse.

07:19Let's talk about Colorado.

07:21I think they're in trouble in Lubbock.

07:23I thought that Texas Tech win at Aims last week was the best football game I watched.

07:27Well, they are.

07:28I'm going to tell you, Texas Tech has got them on a roll right now.

07:31Now they are a great passing team and Texas Tech's weakness is in pass defense.

07:37But I really think when you go into Lubbock and you play them right now, I think you got

07:41to roll with Texas.

07:42I think Texas Tech, they have a lot of confidence right now.

07:44They won a great game last week.

07:46And I see them beating Colorado in Texas Tech in Lubbock.

07:50I think BYU goes to Rice-Eccles and sucker punches the Utes.

07:55I think they're real average.

07:57And I think BYU is fun.

07:59No, no, BYU, yeah, BYU is the story of the year, I think, in that conference, because

08:04Utah was going to be there.

08:06They were going to be the conference contenders, a chance to play for the national championship.

08:12But it's all been about BYU.

08:13And I don't see them losing this game.

08:15This is a great rivalry.

08:17But BYU has all the momentum.

08:19And I would ride that the entire season.

08:22I would ride BYU.

08:23Obviously, Penn State is back to playing teams that they'll cover against.

08:28They can't beat good teams or highly ranked teams or Ohio State, but they can beat Washington's

08:33ass.

08:34You know, I went to West Virginia and our rival, we pitted Penn State.

08:39We just couldn't believe it.

08:41But I don't know if they'll win.

08:43I think they'll win that game.

08:44I will say this.

08:45But this is another year of Paul Thurston.

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