TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — After four decades and 499 games on the sidelines, Florida State's Bobby Bowden still finds some things stay the same — especially when it comes to correcting mistakes.
Bowden, who will be lining up for the 500th time in a college contest today when the Seminoles play Colorado in Jacksonville, was busy this week trying to fix the "what went wrongs" in a 12-3 loss to Wake Forest last weekend.
Today's game against Colorado (3-0) is all about correcting as many of the errors as possible, the 78-year-old coach said.
In addition to seven turnovers, the Seminoles (2-1) were flagged a dozen times for 139 yards that kept their two sophomore quarterbacks pinned down in bad field position for most of the game.
Bowden's 375-120-4 record includes a pair of wins over Colorado and indicates he's been largely successful in getting things straight in the past.
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McBride returns
SALT LAKE CITY — The last time Ron McBride coached a game at Rice-Eccles Stadium, his players carried him off the field.
Utah had just beaten rival BYU 13-6 and the Utes hoped the victory could salvage McBride's job. But the ride on his players' shoulders turned out to be a farewell when McBride was fired two days later, ending a 13-year run that built the foundation for what Utah is today.
"He's responsible for the resurgence of this program," said Utah coach Kyle Whittingham, who spent nine years as an assistant under McBride before the coach was fired at the end of the 2002 season.
McBride returns today coaching Weber State against No. 17 Utah (4-0).
Utah is planning to show a pre-game video of highlights from the McBride era, which was Utah's best in decades and set up the "BCS Busters" of 2004. The Utes played in six bowls under McBride and returned to the AP poll for the first time in almost 50 years.
Optional advice
There's a reason Nebraska's offense looks like it has Tom Osborne's fingerprints on it.
Osborne has carved out some time during his day as the Cornhuskers' athletic director to offer some pointers to offensive coordinator Shawn Watson on running the option.
"I just tell them what little I remember," Osborne said.
Osborne's option offense helped Nebraska win three national championships in his final four years.
He retired after the 1997 season with 255 career victories and as one of two coaches in the game's history to average at least 10 victories a season throughout his career.
UNM files appeal
ALBUQUERQUE — New Mexico's football program asked the NCAA to reconsider the number of scholarship cuts it handed down for three cases of academic fraud.
The NCAA in August put the program on three years of probation and cut five scholarships as punishment for academic violations involving two former assistant coaches.
With the filing of the appeal, the NCAA's ruling is suspended.
