FIESTA BOWL / REPORT
While Phillip Fulmer entered the game as the winningest active coach by percentage--66-11, .857--he was only 4-2 in bowl games.
Did this vindicate him?
“That may be the way some people view things, but I think we could have had a shot at couple of more national titles if it hadn’t been for one game a year [the annual losses to Florida],” Fulmer said.
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With the exception of two players, everyone in the two starting lineups Monday were from eight southern states--Florida, Georgia, Tennessee, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, South Carolina and North Carolina.
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