Tampa Bay Buccaneers coach Todd Bowles has an NFL season to prepare for, but will get to take a chance to shift from football coach to football dad for a night before the start of the 2025 NFL season.

Bowles plans to be in the stands to watch his son, Todd Bowles Jr., play for Long Island University when Florida football hosts LIU in its season opener on Saturday at The Swamp (7 p.m., SEC Network+).

A Tampa Bay Jesuit grad, the 6-foot-1, 195-pound Bowles Jr., began his college career at Rutgers before transferring to LIU in 2022. Bowles Jr. appeared in one game for LIU last season, making two tackles against TCU. He plays defensive back, like his father, who played seven seasons with the Washington Commanders and San Francisco 49ers (1986-93) before going on to a coaching career that

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