There's been a lot of talk this week in the lead-up to Saturday's game, but Florida State fans should only have two words for Alabama fans: thank you.
There has been plenty of good-natured trash-talk between Alabama and Florida State fans in the lead-up to Saturday afternoon's game in Tallahassee. But the truth of the matter is that FSU fans really should only have two words to say to Alabama fans: thank you.
Because if not for a monumental mistake made by Alabama's administration in the aftermath of Paul "Bear" Bryant's retirement, Bobby Bowden would have left Florida State high and dry in the 1980s to coach the team he grew up cheering for.