TALLAHASSEE, Fla. – There are wins over rivals, wins that clinched championships and wins that redefined programs. Some of them all in the same game. Every member of Mike Norvell’s coaching staff at Florida State has at least one game from his football career that stands above the dozens or hundreds of others.
For some, those memories are from playing days – like when receivers coach Ron Dugans lit up Virginia Tech for two touchdowns in the 2000 Sugar Bowl – and others came while wearing a headset and holding a play sheet.
No matter the circumstance, each game helped shape the man as both a person and as a coach, and those experiences will help to inform the current Seminoles every time they step into a meeting room or onto the field. These are their stories from those games:
Part 1: Offense
Offensive coordinator/Quarterbacks coach Kenny Dillingham: A record-setting day on the Plains
Throughout the 2019 season, Kenny Dillingham – then the offensive coordinator at Auburn – guided freshman quarterback Bo Nix into games against some of the country’s best defenses. All along, Nix kept making improvements and showing signs that he could not only be the Tigers’ quarterback of the future – he could be the Tigers’ quarterback of the here and now.
That all culminated in Auburn’s regular-season finale, in a game that’s no stranger to college football fans: The Iron Bowl against Alabama.
The 15th-ranked Tigers were an underdog against No. 5 Alabama, but Auburn had two things going for it – the game was at AU’s Jordan-Hare Stadium, and the Crimson Tide were without injured starting quarterback Tua Tagovailoa.
Dillingham and the rest of Auburn’s staff couldn’t help but feel confident.
“That was a game where going into it, it was the first big-time game of the year where we felt like we had a quarterback advantage,” Dillingham said. “Our freshman quarterback had gotten better and better every week, so we felt really good.”
Matched up against an Alabama team that finished the season ranked 21st in total defense, Nix accounted for 217 total yards and two touchdowns and, perhaps most crucially, didn’t turn the ball over.
He also completed the two-point pass that helped seal a 48-45 victory – and set a new record for the most points scored against the Crimson Tide during coach Nick Saban’s tenure at Alabama.
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