Coach Terry Bowden has compiled a career record of 122-55-2 as a head coach and would rank among the top 12 active Division IA head coaches, with an astonishing winning percentage of 68%.  Terry Bowden started his coaching career by building two programs from the ground up.  At 26 years old, the youngest head college football coach in the country, he turned around an 0-9-1 Salem College team by winning the WVIA Conference Championship in just his second season, and then repeating as Conference Champions the next year. 

Bowden moved on to Samford University, a team that had won a total of just six games in their previous three seasons, going 9-1 in his first season, and setting many national records.  He then engineered their move from Division III non-scholarship football all the way to Division I-AA, and within two years was competing for the national championship.

Terry Bowden then became the youngest head college football coach in the country again, when at age 36 he took over at Auburn University.  Winning his first 20 straight games, an astonishing feat in the SEC, Bowden went on to win 73% of his games at Auburn.

After a 10 year career broadcasting college football for ABC, ESPN, and Westwood One, as well as writing for Yahoo! Sports and Rivals.com, Coach Terry Bowden has gone back to his passion – coaching college football.  As the new head coach at the University of North Alabama, Coach Bowden has joined an elite football program with a proven staff, committed to winning championships.

Coach Bowden’s return to coaching at UNA in 2009 proved that he hadn’t lost a step.  Winning their first 10 games, and earning the #1 ranking in the country for several weeks, the Lions finished 11-2 and made it to the Elite Eight in the National Playoffs. The 2009 UNA Lions won the Gulf South Conference Championship and Coach Bowden was named GSC Co-Coach of the Year.  He had an unprecedented SEVENTEEN players selected to the GSC All Conference Teams; 9 First Team Selections, and 8 Second Team Selections.  Along with over a dozen regional and national awards, the 2009 Lions finished with the #6 Scoring Offense in the Country, and the #11 Scoring Defense in the Country.

UNA LION FOOTBALL

73-16 in the last 7 seasons | 5th straight 10+ win season  |  5th straight appearance in NCAA Playoffs

Highest Win % of any University in the State of Alabama over the last 7 years