Jimbo Fisher believes Florida State should have made the College Football Playoff

Florida State is certain in that they should have been one of the four team’s in the College Football Playoff this year. Now, one of their two national-title winning coaches, Jimbo Fisher, has shared his agreement of that opinion.

Fisher joined on for an interview during ‘Pardon My Take’ to end the week. Among the topic they discussed, Fisher wound up on the Seminoles and, as such, came to the defense of their candidacy, especially since they finished the season as an undefeated team.

“Florida State should have been in the playoff. I know it didn’t go that way,” said Fisher. “I’m an advocate of they went undefeated? They deserve to be in it.”

That’s when Fisher dove deeper into the subjective versus objective aspect of the ‘Nole’s case. Subjectively, Florida State may no longer have been one of the four best teams to some people. Still, objectively, they deserved to be in in his mind as a no-loss conference champion rather than on the outside looking in behind two other one-loss teams.

“It’s about what you do between the white lines. Every time in sports? It’s about overcoming whatever you’ve got to overcome. They did that. They ‘ought to have got bonus points for it, not taken away,” said Fisher. “We’re not figure skating. This isn’t figure skating, you know what I mean? It’s not judgmental. If you want to judge it? I think Georgia is one.”

“We say, ‘Well, Alabama shouldn’t have gotten in.’ Well, let me ask them. I know Texas beat them but you put two one-loss teams ahead of them – not just one. You put two, one-loss teams ahead an undefeated teams that’s an ACC Champion,” Fisher noted. “Whether they won or not, they deserve the right to be in it. They earned the right to be in it. That’s the thing about sports – it’s what you do between the white lines.”

Florida State spent the duration of the season in the top-five with most of it as No. 3 or No. 4 overall in the nation. That included spending all but two weeks in the top-four of this year’s playoff rankings, one where they fell to No. 5 before the loser of The Game was eliminated in the Big Ten and one being the final ranking that officially snubbed them.

With their season over, there’s not much the Seminoles can do now but wonder what could have been. Still, while it’s over and done with, that doesn’t mean Fisher can’t go to bat for the program where he was first a head coach.