With the new contract signed and details made public, Florida State coach Jimbo Fisher is now among the highest-paid coaches in college football, making at least $5 million annually over the life of the contract.

It’s the second raise for Fisher in the past 13 months, but that’s the nature of coaching at the highest levels of college football these days. On the heels of a 29-game winning streak and berth in the inaugural College Football Playoff, Fisher earned a bump in pay to put him in the exclusive club of coaches making $5 million annually.

It’s not as easy to win at Florida State as some other perennial top-10 programs despite the consistent success the school has achieved over the past four decades. Tallahassee is four hours or more from most of Florida’s hubs for high school talent, and Fisher doesn’t enjoy the limitless recruiting budget some schools can offer coaching staffs. Fisher had to overhaul a program to reshape it in his own image, and he did it in just the few years following Bobby Bowden.

Fisher has been criticized as a coach before, and there are already questions as to whether the Florida State program can maintain its status without Jameis Winston. The numbers are in Fisher’s favor, though. He has won three straight ACC titles, a national title and has lost only once since December 2012. Florida State can’t afford to allow another college program swoon Fisher and give the sixth-year coach reason to leave.

Florida State likely isn’t going to find a better coach and recruiter than Fisher, who is wrapping up a top-three class, his fourth in the past five years. While the school has been reluctant to open its checkbook in the past, the administration had to lock up Fisher for the foreseeable future. They did that with the contract extension and the buyout, which starts at $5 million and then decreases in the following years.

Credit the FSU administration, too, for doing what it can to remain competitive with the rest of the college football powerhouses, especially in the SEC. The school opened its pockets to Fisher’s assistants, too, giving Fisher another $750,000 to pay his assistant coaches. A number of Seminoles assistants have left the program over the past three seasons. There was an assistant coaching exodus from Tallahassee following the 2012 season, and Jeremy Pruitt made the high-profile move from Florida State to Georgia before the start of the 2014 season.

If Fisher can win a fourth consecutive ACC championship despite an overhaul on offense and defense heading into 2015, there’s a good chance the school will be announcing another extension around the same time next year.

Here’s a few more links around the ACC:

• Stephone Anthony and Grady Jarrett reflect on their time at Clemson in separate Q&As. Anthony is here and Jarrett is here.

• Florida State announced its spring game will be Apr. 11.

• Duke Johnson and Ereck Flowers, who both declared early for the NFL draft, will be going to the NFL combine along with six of their senior Miami teammates.

• What type of offensive coordinator will Boston College attempt to hire?

• Here's everything you need to know about Syracuse verbal pledge Eric Dungey.

• NC State should land two of the state's top prospects, which is not something the Wolfpack -- or any North Carolina school -- has done often recently.

• A video feature on how Virginia Tech is tackling the challenge of making safer helmets.