Mike Norvell isn’t going anywhere.

Reports in recent days linked the Florida State head coach to the open Alabama head coaching position. On Thursday, ESPN’s Pete Thamel reported that Norvell was expected to become one of the focal points of the search to replace Nick Saban. But, on Friday, Norvell confirmed on social media that he will not be leaving Florida State.

“The future is bright in Tallahassee,” Norvell wrote in a post.

Norvell just wrapped his fourth season as the Seminoles’ head coach, and it was by far his best yet.

FSU won 13 games and an ACC championship. If not for an injury to star quarterback Jordan Travis, the Seminoles would have gone to the College Football Playoff. Without Travis, FSU became the first unbeaten champion from a Power Five conference to be excluded from the four-team CFP — a snub that sent shockwaves through the sport.

Travis’s time in Tallahassee is done, but Norvell went out and plucked former Clemson and Oregon State quarterback DJ Uiagalelei from the transfer portal in an attempt to keep things rolling into next season. The Seminoles have won 10 or more games in back-to-back seasons for the first time since the Jimbo Fisher era.

The Seminoles signed the nation’s seventh-best recruiting class in the 2024 cycle, including the fourth-best transfer class in the country.

The future is bright, and it’ll remain so as long as Norvell is in town.

For Alabama, Norvell becomes the third coach publicly linked to the job to announce they’re staying put. Oregon’s Dan Lanning said in a video on social media Thursday he wasn’t going anywhere. Texas coach Steve Sarkisian did the same on Friday morning.

With Norvell off the board, all eyes will turn to Seattle and Washington’s Kalen DeBoer.