Former Florida State Head Coach Jimbo Fisher Weighs In On College Football Playoff Snub

The decision to leave Florida State out of the playoffs didn't sit well with the National Championship coach.

Former FSU and Texas A&M head coach Jimbo Fisher didn't leave Tallahassee gracefully in some people's eyes when he took the job at TAMU for what was then one of the largest coaching salaries in college football history. 

Still, like many coaches across the country, he didn't agree with the College Football Playoff Committee's decision to leave a 13-0 ACC Champion out of the 2023 College Football Playoffs over a 12-1 Alabama and Texas. 

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The decision hasn't sat well with many public figures and a lot of the reasoning behind the justification the CFP had seemed to go against what college football is about.

"We've set it back because of opinions," Fisher first told the Tallahassee Democrat on Wednesday. 

The opinion given by the 13 people picking the playoff docket was that, without starting quarterback Jordan Travis, FSU wasn't the same team despite the same committee moving them up in the rankings ahead of Texas and Alabama the following week after the injury. 

“We’ve taken football and turned it into ice skating,” Fisher said regarding relying on the optics that have widely been the reasoning given behind Florida State not being included in the final four teams. 

“Football is about what happens between the white lines,” which is a sentiment also shared by ESPN analyst Booger McFarland earlier this week. 

Fisher took the Seminoles to their 2013 BCS National Championship win after a perfect season and carried the 'Noles into the first edition of the 2014 College Football Playoffs. 

No. 5 Florida State is set to play No. 6 Georgia on December 30 in the 2023 Orange Bowl at 4:00 p.m. 

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