Jimbo Fisher officially leaves FSU for Texas A&M job

Jimbo Fisher will be heading out of Tallahassee and off to the state of Texas, as he officially has accepted a deal with Texas A&M.

Not long after FSU football won their fifth straight game against the rival Florida Gators for the first time in school history, head coach Jimbo Fisher was asked if it was going to be his final game coaching the Seminoles – which set off the eight year head man and launched him into a nearly two minute rant about rumors.

Apparently, the rumors turned out to be true.

After a week of speculation and constant rumors to go along with Fisher refusing to answer questions on the subject, the head coach will in fact be heading to the SEC and become the new head coach for the Texas A&M Aggies.

"“Coach Fisher did an exceptional job as both an assistant coach at FSU and in the challenging role of successor to the legendary Bobby Bowden. I believe Texas A&M is getting one of the best coaches in college football,” school president John Thrasher said in a statement.“From the moment media reports began to circulate about our position, it became evident the job would attract great interest from a number of elite coaches, and we will move quickly to evaluate candidates from across the nation.”"

Athletic director Stan Wilcox announced that defensive tackles coach Odell Haggins, a former FSU All-American who has spent almost a quarter century as an assistant with the Seminoles, will be the interim coach for Saturday’s game against Louisiana Monroe.

For the past three seasons, the end of the college football season brought another Jimbo Fisher rumor – with the last two years being that he was going to leave for the LSU Tigers. Now, Fisher will be heading to his second head coaching job as he heads to a SEC West program who has been trying to get into the upper levels of the conference since joining in 2012.

Jimbo Fisher will be reunited with Scott Woodward, the athletics director at Texas A&M who served in the same position at LSU when Fisher was an assistant coach under Nick Saban during the early 2000’s.

The Seminoles are coming off a win in their final regular season game against  Louisiana Monroe this weekend in what was maybe the biggest game in recent years for the program – as they avoided the first losing regular season since 1976 and the first non-bowl season since 1981.

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In his eight seasons in Tallahassee, Jimbo Fisher had a record of 84-23 that included three ACC championships and the 2013 national title. Over the last six years under Sumlin, the Aggies finished with an above .500 record in SEC games just one time (2012) and finished the 2017 regular season with a 7-5 record, losing three of their final five games.