Jimbo Fisher has received a championship plaque by Texas A&M

Jimbo Fisher has never coached a game for the Texas A&M Aggies, but he has already been given a championship plaque marked 20– because of course he has.

Jimbo Fisher knows what it takes to win a college football national championship. He did so back with his former employer in 2013 with the Florida State Seminoles. Though they have won three national championships, Texas A&M University has gone 0-for in the winning championships department since the WWII.

This is why the Aggies gave up the farm to pry Fisher out of Tallahassee to be their football coach. So what if he went 5-6 in his last year with the Seminoles? The guy was a champion once and Texas A&M wants to be a champion very badly this century. How do we know this? Because the university just gave Fisher a championship plaque marked “20– NCAA Division I Football National Championship”.

This is the same university that once claimed two extra national titles in 1919 and 1927 when Home of the 12th Man Kyle Field was being remodeled. If you can increase your number of championships by two, you can absolutely give an incoming coach a glorified participation trophy before he even gives it the old college try. This is America and we don’t mess with Texas.

Texas A&M signed Fisher to a 10-year deal this past winter, meaning he could be the Aggies head coach through the 2027 NCAA season. Even if he doesn’t get that elusive national title by 2027, he technically still has until the end of the century to get it done. Fisher would just need another seven, 10-year contracts and change from making this plaque null and void. Can’t let that happen. No way.

Should Fisher coach at Texas A&M into the 2065 season, he will be 100 years old. With advances in modern medicine, Fisher could still be in his coaching prime at 134 in 2099. You never know. But on a serious note, how soon can Fisher realistically compete for a national championship at Texas A&M?

Well, he needs his former LSU mentor and new division rival Nick Saban to retire. Saban’s other protegé Kirby Smart couldn’t get it done in overtime in January in Atlanta. It’s not like Georgia is bereft of talent in the SEC East. In the SEC West, Fisher has to play Alabama, Auburn, LSU and Mississippi State annually.

Getting South Carolina as a cross-divisional rival isn’t a walk in the park either. Texas may have more in-state football talent than anywhere in the country, but there are five Power 5 schools in the state. Let’s not forget that other Power 5 schools want some of that Lone Star high school football action, too.

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Texas A&M has set the bar ridiculously high for Fisher already. While the Aggies try to Gig ‘Em every fall down in College Station, SEC foe will want to Plaque ‘Em going forward. This participation trophy is the hokiest thing to happen to SEC football since the Butch Jones Team 121 trash can at Tennessee a season ago. No, that did not end well for Rocky Top. Fisher has 82 years to get it done. The clock is ticking. Gig ‘Em, Gig ‘Em.