2008 Champs Sports Bowl - Florida State Uses an MVP Punter & Heads Up Play to Rout Wisconsin, 42-13

If you thought for a minute that 79-year-old Bobby Bowden was ready to retire as caput manager of Sunshine State State, bury it, especially after his Siminoles routed Wisconsin River River 42-13 in the Champs Sports Bowl Saturday (12-27-08).

For Bowden, the triumph over Wisconsin was like déjà vu, a big-play discourtesy and a hard-hitting, nasty, timeserving defence getting all over the Badgers, sending them back into the hole they came from. The Siminoles' particular squads got in the Badgers' faces. When Sunshine State State had to Irish pound they had the right player-Graham Gano, the Lou Groza Award victor as the nation's best kicker. All Gano did was mean 48+ paces on 5 Irish pounds and topographic point 3 of them inside the 4, including 2 at Wisconsin's 1-yard line.

Talk about championship your opposition up against the end line, Gano had just the right touch, earning him the most valuable player Award. When, if ever, have got you hear of a punter getting an most valuable player Award in a bowl game?

On the defensive side, both Derek Nicholson and Dekoda Thomas Augustus Thomas Augustus Watson returned muffs for touchdowns, Nicholson's for 75 paces and Watson's for 51. Talk about excitement. After both squads failed to mark in the 1st quarter, Sunshine State State scored 2 touchdowns in each of the 2nd, 3rd and 4th quarters.

Wisconsin was continually starting out deep in its ain district and never really did acquire untracked. P. J. Hill managed to derive 140 paces on 15 transports for the Badgers, but signal caller Dustin Sherer completed only 4 of 9 for 55 paces during the first three quarters. It was an ugly coating for Wisconsin's season. Early on the Badgers were ranked as high as 9th in the AP Top 25 Poll, but Wisconsin River have always been overrated the last few years. The loss left them at 7-6.

The win set Sunshine State State at 9-4, the Siminoles first 9-win season since 2004. Bobby Bowden is used to better, having hit at least 9 wins in 17 of 18 old age before tailing off in recent seasons. Many of his cardinal participants tax return next year, giving him no good ground to quit, even at 80.

The Champs Sports Bowl game was Sunshine State State's NCAA-leading Twenty-Seventh consecutive bowl game, improving Bowden's personal bowl game record to 21-10-1. Bowden have 382 calling wins, just 1 short of Joe Paterno's 383 at William Penn State, the major college record. Paterno is 82 old age young.

Both Bobby Bowden and Joe Paterno will likely be carried out of a football game bowl on a stretcher when they discontinue coaching. These cats are icons and extremely competitive. Even though they would both deny it, each would wish to travel down in history with the most wins ever, and they turn out it every twelvemonth they go back to the sideline.

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