Jimbo Fisher joined ACC Huddle, the ACC Network’s Saturday morning pregame show, for the 2025 season, and it didn’t take long for his new gig to bring him back to the scene of his greatest glory as a college football coach.
For Week 6, the show was broadcasting live from Tallahassee, site of Saturday night’s huge ACC battle between Sunshine State rivals Miami and Florida State. The game will kick off at 7:30 p.m. ET on ABC as the 3rd-ranked Hurricanes and 18th-ranked Seminoles get it on yet again, bringing a feeling to Doak Campbell Stadium that Fisher will remember well. But hours before kickoff, during the pregame show, the Florida State coaching legend was showered with love by the gathering of FSU fans behind the ACC Network’s set.
The loud cheers from the crowd brought tears to Fisher’s eyes, and he let the emotions sink in while doing the famed Florida State tomahawk chop toward the adoring crowd.
“It’s Miami week,” screamed Fisher, who knows a little something about the bitter FSU-UM rivalry.
Fisher went 7-1 against the hated Hurricanes during his 8-year run as head coach at FSU between 2010-17, and he did something else pretty memorable while at FSU, too. He brought a national championship back to Tallahassee, leading the Seminoles to the crown in 2013 while going 83-23 during his legendary tenure.
He had a strong run at Texas A&M, too, going 45-25 in 6 seasons in College Station, but Fisher will be remembered most as a head coach for his time in Tallahassee, and those fans didn’t forget what he brought them during Saturday morning’s pregame show.
Here is the emotional video of Fisher getting love from the crowd:
Fisher has a lot of memories from Florida State stored in his head from all those years, but now he’s got another one from his new life as a college football analyst.
It’ll go right next to all the moments he remembers from the sidelines at Doak Campbell Stadium.
Cory Nightingale, a former sportswriter and sports editor at the Miami Herald and Palm Beach Post, is a South Florida-based freelance writer who covers Alabama for SaturdayDownSouth.com.
