Just Peachy

September 11, 2005 01:07 AM | General

By John Antonik for MSNsportsNET.com
September 10, 2005

Bobby Bowden spent the spring and summer of 1974 traveling the twisted and crooked two-lane roads of West Virginia promoting his Mountaineer football team. He talked them up like never before. West Virginians, eyes and mouths wide open and eager for another big winner, took it all in as the gospel.

“If our quarterbacking comes through this fall, we could be a pretty good country football team,” he said. “We’ve got the potential and experience, but like a bomb, we can’t explode without an igniter.”

>>> Go to special 1975 Peach Bowl web page