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Winning 10 games in Florida State's situation should be a matter of just showing up. They have two other mediocre programs in their division, 3 dumpster fires, and one good one. The other division is even worse. Unless they have the misfortune of getting Virginia Tech in addition to Miami, there's another guaranteed win with the cross opponent from that division. That's 8/9 automatic wins every year when you count garbage conference opponents and 2/3 cupcakes. Then you just need to win one or two out of Florida (who has sucked for Jimbo's entire tenure), Clemson, and Miami (who has sucked for Jimbo's entire tenure until this year).

Check out this stat about Jimbo's 10+ win seasons.
Wins over teams that finished ranked:
2010: #22 South Carolina
2012: #9 Clemson, #22 Northern Illinois
2013: #7 Clemson, #22 Duke, #2 Auburn
2014: #8 Georgia Tech, #15 Clemson
2015: #25 Florida
2016: #23 Miami, #13 Florida, #10 Michigan

Only 2013 and 2016 look respectable at all. Bear in mind that in several of these seasons, they could have won 10 games without beating a single ranked team.

He's recruited well, but they are in a recruiting situation that should be virtually automatic.

When FSU was offered to join the SEC in 1992, Bowden and their AD explicitly stated that they wanted the easy schedule of the ACC.

You are making subjective arguments. I am just saying that as of right now, there is only one coach more accomplished than Fisher in the SEC. I even said we can debate whether or not his success translates to the SEC. You can rationalize his success, and come up with whatever reasons you wish. It will not change the fact that Fisher is the second accomplished coach in the league now.