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Mickey Andrews says this is likely last season with Seminoles

The verdict is still out on how long Bobby Bowden will continue coaching, but his longtime defensive coordinator, Mickey Andrews, said Sunday that this likely will be his last season.

Andrews, who is beginning his 26th year at the helm of Florida State's defense, said he has only assured Bowden that he will remain for the 2009 season.

``I said one year last year, and this is the one year,'' Andrews said.

FSU to honor defensive coordinator Mickey Andrews before game

Fifty years ago on a high school football field in Ozark, Ala., Bobby Bowden first saw the passion that burns inside Mickey Andrews.

At the time, Andrews was a do-everything star who would go on to be recruited by Paul ``Bear'' Bryant and play on two of Alabama's national championship teams. Bowden was coach of tiny Howard College (now Samford University) in Birmingham, Ala.

Bowden knew he had no chance of landing Andrews. ``Mickey was Division I-A material, and I was at a small-college division.''

Florida State's Bobby Bowden to announce decision on Tuesday

Though Florida State head coach Bobby Bowden said he won't announce his future plans until Tuesday at the earliest, several media outlets reported Monday night that Bowden will retire after this, his 34th season with the Seminoles.

Citing unnamed sources, the Tallahassee Democrat said it was unclear whether Bowden would stay on to coach FSU in a bowl game but that ``head-coach-in-waiting'' Jimbo Fisher would soon take the reins.

Bowden, who confirmed Sunday that he wanted to return in 2010, met early Monday with FSU president T.K. Wetherell and athletic director Randy Spetman. Bowden and Spetman declined to discuss specifics of the meeting, but the Hall of Fame coach said he was offered some ``options.''

Gator Bowl matchup is as much about saluting Bobby Bowden as who wins

It's only fitting that after 56 years of coaching, a football game is expected to break out during Bobby Bowden's retirement party.

After weeks of farewell hugs, handshakes and even a parade appearance, the legendary Florida State coach will oversee his final game Friday afternoon. It will come against West Virginia in the Gator Bowl.

But with all the hoopla surrounding the event -- Bowden was grand marshal of the Gator Bowl Parade on Thursday and will be escorted to the stadium Friday by hundreds of his former players -- even Bowden knows that the game itself has become somewhat of an afterthought.

FSU-Clemson matchup has many connections

After a week that saw one college football player dig his hand into an opponent's facemask and a women's soccer player yank a foe down by the hair, Saturday's Florida State-Clemson game appears to have all the acrimony of a senior-center chess match.

FSU coach Bobby Bowden spoke this week of his affinity for Clemson coach Dabo Swinney, who was mentored for years by Bowden's son Tommy and who, like Bowden, was born and raised in Birmingham, Ala.

Clemson defensive coordinator Kevin Steele was on the Florida State staff from 2003 to '06 and said this week that Tallahassee was a place he once hoped to finish his career. He then paid this compliment to FSU defensive coordinator Mickey Andrews: ``I don't know anybody that's done it any better.''