Terry Bowden says beggining of the end started vs. State
The Auburn Plainsman Online - Bowden talks about time on The Plains: Part Two:
Little did Bowden know, a loss to Mississippi State would be the beginning of his undoing at Auburn.
“We’re 6-1 and we’re playing Mississippi State. I am looking at our season and I know we should beat them at home,” Bowden said. “The only way we will have a successful season is not just to beat Mississippi State, but we have to beat Georgia and Alabama. Georgia was very highly ranked, and a top 10 team. So I plan to go out there against Mississippi State and throw it every down. Then we would have an off week the next week, and that film would convince Georgia that we couldn’t run at all. On the off week we would put in an entirely new offense that had a running attack in it.”
Auburn would have six turnovers in the red zone that prevented them from scoring. Mississippi State won 20-0.
“Of course I find out later that that was the game (an influential Auburn Trustee) decided that he was going to get rid of Terry Bowden. That he was tired of these 8-4 seasons,” Bowden said.
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