Jimbo Fisher
Now
Career arc
Bowls and playoffs: 8-2 · won 1 of 1 national title game
Florida State’10W’11W’12W’13W★’14L’15L’16WTexas A&M’18W’19W’20W
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2010Chick-fil-A BowlW 26-17
2011Champs Sports BowlW 18-14
2012Orange BowlW 31-10
2013 ★BCS title gameW 34-31
2014 semiRose BowlL 20-59
2015Peach BowlL 24-38
2016Orange BowlW 33-32
Texas A&M
2018Gator BowlW 52-13
2019Texas BowlW 24-21
2020Orange BowlW 41-27
Report card
Top-quarter on both sides of the ball — 77th percentile offense, 85th percentile defense.
Texas A&M, every completed season graded against the whole field, then averaged.
Offense
Defense
Each season is his team’s percentile among every team with that stat (the share it beat), averaged over his completed seasons here; a mid-season takeover year and the season in progress aren’t graded. Letters: A+ 90th percentile and up, A 80, B+ 70, B 60, B− 50, C+ 45, C 40, C− 30, D 15, F below.
Fans
No fan talk about him on our list yet. His record is on Career.
Stats
Big games
Pick a job to see its years on their own.
The big-game ledger
How he does in the games that matter most — rivalry record, performance broken out by real opponent tier, one-score games, and his toughest historical matchup.
14-2 against his rivals at Florida State. Just 1-2 against Tom O'Brien.
Signature games
Tags describe each game; they aren’t scores. The weighting that picks these games is still being tested.
The big-game ledger
How he does in the games that matter most — rivalry record, performance broken out by real opponent tier, one-score games, and his toughest historical matchup.
3-2 against his rivals at Texas A&M. Winless in 3 tries against Lane Kiffin.
Signature games
Tags describe each game; they aren’t scores. The weighting that picks these games is still being tested.
The big-game ledger
How he does in the games that matter most — rivalry record, performance broken out by real opponent tier, one-score games, and his toughest historical matchup.
17-4 against his rivals. Winless in 3 tries against Lane Kiffin.
Signature games
Tags describe each game; they aren’t scores. The weighting that picks these games is still being tested.
ATS is his record against the spread: did his team beat the closing betting line, winning by more than it or losing by less? Lines start in 2013; a dash means fewer than 6 of those games had one. One-score games carry no spread record: a big favorite that wins a close game has almost always failed to cover, so that number would say nothing about the coach.
How he plays
Run/pass mix, by field position
Passed more than the situation called for under Dickey and Petrino.
4,748 run and pass snaps at Texas A&M, 2018–2023, his own games, one row per offensive coordinator. Each cell is how much more often he passed than the rest of FBS did in the same situation (field zone, down, distance, score, quarter, same season), in percentage points.
Pass rate, stint by stint
Where each stint’s offense sat between run-first and pass-first, and how far it moved from one season to the next, against the FBS-wide average of 41% pass. The band is that stint’s real season-to-season range, not a fixed-width box.
Season-to-season pass-rate range for all 449 FBS coaching stints with at least three covered seasons, 2004–2025.
Building the roster
Six numbers on how he actually stocks a roster, from signing day to draft day.
His recruiting, really
His 6 ranked Texas A&M classes of his own have averaged #8 nationally — best #1, worst #17.
His class — he had the full signing cycle
Rank is each signing class’s national recruiting rank (#1 is best). Only a class he had a full signing cycle to build counts as his.
Followed him here
Florida State→
Texas A&M2018Players who transferred from his old program to his new one through the portal in the same year he made the move. Name-matching across data sources misses some, so every count is a floor, not an exact number.
Roster ownership
Roster ownership
of his 2023 roster arrived on his watch — 133 of 133 players. Nobody is left from before he was hired.
Of his own players on this roster, 10% came through the transfer portal; the rest are non-portal arrivals (high-school signees, JUCO transfers, walk-ons).
Everyone he has brought in, 2018–2023Counting players who have since left: 8% of the 142 arrivals we can classify came through the portal.
This tenure spans the 2021 transfer-portal tracking floor: seasons before 2021 structurally cannot be classified portal-vs-not (they land in 'unknown' below), so the portal-share figure understates how many pre-2021 arrivals might have been transfers under the pre-portal-tracking transfer rules.
“His own” means the player arrived while he was head coach; “inherited” means a predecessor brought him in.
Size up front
Size up front
Offensive linemen on his Texas A&M rosters have averaged 8 lb heavier than the FBS average (2018–2023) — heavier than 90% of FBS coaching runs since 2010. In the three seasons before he arrived, Texas A&M’s line averaged 5 lb heavier than the FBS average.
Average listed weight of every offensive lineman on each season’s roster, holdovers included, against every FBS roster that season (2010 on; a program needs 3+ seasons under him to appear). Weights are the ones programs publish, and programs list differently. This describes size only — not scheme, and not quality.
Where he recruits
is his biggest recruiting state: 82 of 132 signees (62%) across his 2018–2023 tenure, drawn from 21 states in all. Next: FL (10).
68% of his signees come from TX and its 4 border states (LA 5, OK 2, AR 1).
Off this map: 2 signees to the west (CA 2) and 2 to the north (WA 2).
- median hometown distance
- 152 mi
- within 100 mi
- 34%
- within 500 mi
- 68%
- beyond 1,000 mi
- 18%
The map counts signed recruits across his tenure; the distance figures cover his current roster, transfers and walk-ons included. Two different groups, kept separate on purpose.
The NFL pipeline
The NFL pipeline
players drafted into the NFL off his teams here. He brought in 12 of them himself; 12 arrived under Kevin Sumlin. 1 went in the first round.
| Year | Pick | Player | Pos | NFL team | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | R2.13 | Edgerrin Cooper | Linebacker |  Green Bay Packers | |
| 2024 | R3.34 | McKinnley Jackson | Defensive Tackle |  Cincinnati Bengals | |
| 2024 | R4.03 | Layden Robinson | Offensive Guard |  New England Patriots | |
| 2024 | R5.17 | Ainias Smith | Wide Receiver |  Philadelphia Eagles | |
| 2023 | R3.21 | Devon Achane | Running Back |  Miami Dolphins | |
| 2023 | R5.26 | Antonio Johnson | Safety |  Jacksonville Jaguars | |
| 2023 | R7.04 | Jaylon Jones | Cornerback |  Indianapolis Colts | |
| 2022 | R1.15 | Kenyon Green | Offensive Guard |  Houston Texans |
| Year | Pick | Player | Pos | NFL team | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | R3.20 | DeMarvin Leal | Defensive End |  Pittsburgh Steelers | |
| 2022 | R4.12 | Micheal Clemons | Defensive End |  New York Jets | recruited under Kevin Sumlin |
| 2022 | R4.18 | Isaiah Spiller | Running Back |  Los Angeles Chargers | |
| 2021 | R3.02 | Kellen Mond | Quarterback |  Minnesota Vikings | recruited under Kevin Sumlin |
| 2021 | R4.12 | Bobby Brown III | Defensive Tackle |  Los Angeles Rams | |
| 2021 | R4.23 | Dan Moore Jr. | Offensive Tackle | Pittsburgh Steelers | recruited under Kevin Sumlin |
| 2021 | R4.35 | Buddy Johnson | Inside Linebacker | Pittsburgh Steelers | recruited under Kevin Sumlin |
| 2020 | R3.07 | Justin Madubuike | Defensive Tackle |  Baltimore Ravens | recruited under Kevin Sumlin |
| 2020 | R6.12 | Braden Mann | Punter | New York Jets | recruited under Kevin Sumlin |
| 2019 | R2.16 | Erik McCoy | Center |  New Orleans Saints | recruited under Kevin Sumlin |
| 2019 | R3.11 | Jace Sternberger | Tight End | Green Bay Packers | |
| 2019 | R5.12 | Kingsley Keke | Defensive Tackle | Green Bay Packers | recruited under Kevin Sumlin |
| 2019 | R5.22 | Daylon Mack | Defensive Tackle | Baltimore Ravens | recruited under Kevin Sumlin |
| 2019 | R6.09 | Trayveon Williams | Running Back |  Cincinnati Bengals | recruited under Kevin Sumlin |
| 2019 | R6.40 | Donovan Wilson | Safety |  Dallas Cowboys | recruited under Kevin Sumlin |
| 2019 | R7.06 | Cullen Gillaspia | Running Back | Houston Texans | recruited under Kevin Sumlin |
A pick counts toward his tenure when the player’s final college season was one he coached, a checkable rule rather than a claim about who developed the player. A blank note means the player is on a verified roster and arrived on his watch. “Estimated” means no roster record, so the final season is assumed to be the year before the draft.
News
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Career
Coaching career
The arc of his career is on Now.
Transformer raised the program into the sport's top tier, or higher within it · Steady no large move in either direction on our stature ladder
4th-best Texas A&M tenure of 19 by the numbers.
Followed Kevin Sumlin (2012–2017) · succeeded by Elijah Robinson (2023).
| Season | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Record & result | |||||||
| Record | 9-4 | 8-5 | 9-1 | 8-4 | 5-7 | 6-4 | |
| Postseason | W bowl | W bowl | W bowl | — | — | — | |
| Coordinators | |||||||
| OC | Darrell Dickey | Darrell Dickey | Darrell Dickey | Darrell Dickey | Darrell Dickey / James Coley | Bobby Petrino / James Coley | |
| DC | Mike Elko | Mike Elko | Mike Elko | Mike Elko | D. J. Durkin / Tyler Santucci | D. J. Durkin / Elijah Robinson | |
| Outcome — opponent-adjusted efficiency percentile | |||||||
| Offense | 90 | 44 | 90 | 39 | 41 | 56 | |
| Defense | 61 | 72 | 87 | 97 | 78 | 77 | |
| Tendencies — play-by-play, neutral script | |||||||
| 1st-down pass% | 40.9 | 46.3 | 40.7 | 45.1 | 43.8 | 46.9 | |
| Red-zone pass% | 39.6 | 48.7 | 37.4 | 43.0 | 44.6 | 41.6 | |
| 4th-down go%opp. territory | 14.0 | 12.9 | 32.0 | 10.7 | 20.6 | 25.5 | |
Performs about as expected for his recruiting talent, on both sides of the ball.
Brings in bigger-than-position-typical players than most.
Recruits older, more experienced transfers than most.
4 player-seasons honored (All-America / national award): Kenyon Green (2020), Kenyon Green (2021), DeMarvin Leal (2021), Edgerrin Cooper (2023)
2nd-best Florida State tenure of 10 by the numbers.
Followed Bobby Bowden (1976–2009) · succeeded by Willie Taggart (2018–2019).
| Season | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Record & result | |||||||||
| Record | 10-4 | 9-4 | 12-2 | 14-0 | 13-1 | 10-3 | 10-3 | 5-6 | |
| Postseason | W bowl | W bowl | W bowl | Champion | CFP loss | L bowl | W bowl | — | |
| Coordinators | |||||||||
| OC | — | — | — | — | Randy Sanders / Lawrence Dawsey | Randy Sanders / Lawrence Dawsey | Randy Sanders / Lawrence Dawsey | Randy Sanders / Lawrence Dawsey | |
| DC | — | — | — | — | Charles Kelly | Charles Kelly | Charles Kelly | Charles Kelly | |
| Outcome — opponent-adjusted efficiency percentile | |||||||||
| Offense | 77 | 47 | 97 | 100 | 88 | 66 | 86 | 64 | |
| Defense | 42 | 92 | 99 | 100 | 45 | 69 | 90 | 84 | |
| Tendencies — play-by-play, neutral script | |||||||||
| 1st-down pass% | 43.1 | 52.3 | 47.1 | 49.2 | 51.0 | 45.1 | 43.3 | 39.8 | |
| Red-zone pass% | 38.0 | 41.6 | 29.7 | 36.5 | 34.6 | 40.0 | 33.9 | 39.3 | |
| 4th-down go%opp. territory | 10.5 | 7.4 | 2.6 | 0.0 | 10.5 | 17.5 | 9.4 | 17.1 | |
Performs about as expected for his recruiting talent, on both sides of the ball.
48 NFL Draft picks: Christian Ponder (2011), Rodney Hudson (2011), Markus White (2011), Nigel Bradham (2012), Zebrie Sanders (2012), Mike Harris (2012), Andrew Datko (2012), EJ Manuel (2013) + 40 more
All-time wins
Wins at programs this site tracks, 1936–present — one consistent count for every coach, not each program’s own historically reported total.
2nd all-time at Florida State
Was he good?
The data leans positive, where the data can separate from zero: every conclusive reading points the same way.
+12.1 pts at Florida State · #171 of 1290 · top quarterModel fit as of 2026-09-04.