... coach Bobby Bowden are coming off their best season in four years. They face significant personnel losses, mostly on the defensive side, yet have turned around after several disappointing years. Jimbo Fisher has brought a new attitude to the offense which has improved the overall confidence of the team. While the team has one of the toughest schedules in the nation heading into 2009, they will also have to overcome the negative aura of the ongoing appeal to the NCAA Committee of Infractions punishment for the cheating scandal of 2006-2007. The defense has suffered more losses to graduation, but the team has an optimism for this season that seems based more on actual performance than prediction, unlike the past two....

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