TALLAHASSEE, Fla. -- Florida State finishes with the No. 1 recruiting class, and the Seminoles signing-day ascent looked like a throwback model familiar to their fans.
Over a four-hour span beginning at 8 a.m. ET signing day morning, Florida State gained six ESPN 300 commitments to jump from No. 4 in the class rankings at the start of the day to the top. It felt like a Jimbo Fisher homage to mentor Bobby Bowden, recruiting's renowned closer and signing day maestro.
Yet Fisher, who signed 16 ESPN 300 recruits and 25 total, credited the three months prior for the Seminoles' strong February finale and uprooting of Alabama atop the recruiting rankings.