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FSU’s Jimbo Fisher the king of winning close games in college football

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Close counts, especially for a coach who is on the winning side of things.

Ask FSU’s Jimbo Fisher, the close-win king of college football.

According to Jon Solomon of CBSsports, Fisher is the best close-game coach in the ACC. Fisher was 7-0 in one-possession games, and the Seminoles have won their last 10 overall, with their last close-game loss coming to North Carolina State in 2012.

Solomon ranks Alabama’s Nick Saban, Ohio State’s Urban Meyer, UCLA’s Jim Mora, TCU’s Gary Patterson as the other coaches who are hard to beat in a tight game in their respective conferences.

He has Miami’s Al Golden as the worst close-game coach in the ACC. In other conferences, the worst close-game coaches were Ole Miss’s Hugh Freeze, Stanford’s David Shaw, Oklahoma’s Bob Stoops and Iowa’s Kurt Ference.

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