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Bowden finished his career first in all-time wins by a [[Division I (NCAA)|Division I-FBS]] coach with 389 wins.<ref name="jacksonville.com">http://jacksonville.com/sports/college/florida_state_seminoles/2010-01-06/story/bobby_bowden_wins_last_game_but_cant_beat_nc</ref> A March 6, 2009 NCAA ruling requiring Florida State to "vacate wins for any games in which an ineligible player participated," threatening to remove as many as 14 of Bowden's wins from the 2006 and 2007 seasons in relation to an academic scandal; Florida State appealed the ruling.<ref>http://www.ncaa.org/library/records/football/football_records_book/2007/2007_d1_football_records_book.pdf NCAA 2007 Football Records, pg 378</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://seminoles.cstv.com/sports/m-footbl/mtt/bowden_bobby01.html|title=Bobby Bowden profile|publisher=seminoles.com}}</ref><ref>http://sports.espn.go.com/ncf/news/story?id=4320845</ref> The NCAA upheld the ruling on January 5, 2010.<ref>http://sports.espn.go.com/ncf/news/story?id=4797662</ref> Upon final investigation by [[Florida State University]] it was determined that Bowden was to vacate 12 wins,<ref name="jacksonville.com"/> bringing his final career record to 377–129–4.
Coach Bowden was the winningest D1 college football coach in NCAA history until he was outpaced by Coach Joe Paterno of [[Pennsylvania State University]]. However, due to the sanctions handed down by the NCAA on July 23, 2012 as a result of the child sex abuse scandal perpetrated by Jerry Sandusky that plagued Penn State's football program, Coach Paterno forfeited all wins from 1998-2011. This places Coach Bowden, again, as the NCAA division 1 coach with the most career wins.
==Youth and early life==
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