Terry Wilson Bowden is an American college football coach, currently the head coach at the University of Louisiana at Monroe. Bowden was previously head coach at Salem University (1983β1985), Samford University (1987β1992), Auburn University (1993β1998), the University of North Alabama (2009β2011), and the University of Akron (2012β2018). He is a son of former Florida State University head football coach Bobby Bowden and a brother of Tommy Bowden, former head football coach at Clemson University, and Jeff Bowden, the former offensive coordinator at Florida State who served as Terry's special teams coordinator at Akron.