Jimbo Fisher Tired of Defending Undefeated Seminoles, Says Team 'Always Finishes'

Jimbo Fisher is tired of the Florida State Seminoles losing respect despite remaining undefeated.

According to the Orlando Sentinel, a reporter asked the Seminoles head football coach in the postgame news conference whether or not he though his team would stay highly ranked. Florida State held onto the top spot in the AP poll, but they are ranked third by the College Football Playoff (CFP) committee.

"Why wouldn't it? We're undefeated," Fisher said. "We're undefeated. We finish every game. Everybody else in the country has not finished at least one game. We've finished every one of them. Isn't that the object?"

Fisher then repeated the question, prompting the reporter to reply, "Yes sir." Fisher had made his point, but that may not stop the Seminoles from coming closer to falling out of the CFP's top four.

The new rankings are due out Tuesday evening and the committee has already dropped Florida State despite their undefeated record. The CFP committee has made it known that they will look at strength of schedule and other metrics aside from wins and losses when deciding their rankings. Florida State has one of the weakest schedules in all the Power Five and, while they are undefeated, they are coming from behind seemingly every week and relying on one player's greatness to win.

The latest example was Florida State's narrow 20-17 win over 6-5 Boston College. The Seminoles went into the fourth quarter tied, but BC had a shot to take a lead with 4:37 left to play. After they missed the 43-yard field goal attempt, quarterback Jameis Winston led the Seminoles 66 yards down the field to set up the game-winning field goal.

Florida State plays Florida next weekend and then Georgia Tech in the ACC Championship the following week.

"Let me ask you this: How about the way everybody else hasn't finished?" Fisher told ESPN. "Our team has never not finished. The game is 60 minutes. This team hasn't lost in over two years. Everybody says 'game control.' That's something made up. As a coach, you talk about one thing: Finish. Get it done. This team wins in every way, shape and form you can win. Everybody else has failed at least once, no matter what you look at, and some of those teams have lost when they were over 20-point favorites."