TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) Decades of Florida State football dominance is displayed on the walls just outside of Willie Taggart's office. Trophies and plaques commemorate All-America players and championship teams. Lots of them.

Off to the side, in a poorly lit corner, next to two chairs and a couch that serve as a waiting area for visitors, is the 4-foot tall trophy the Seminoles received for winning the 2017 Independence Bowl. The bronze eagle, clutching an American flag in its talons, is the last piece of hardware from the previous regime at Florida State, though former coach Jimbo Fisher already had begun his new job at Texas A&M when the `Noles beat Southern Mississippi in Shreveport to cap an otherwise dreary season.

Unlike the trophy, most of what Fisher left behind was impossible to miss in Taggart's first year as Florida State coach.