NC State coach Dave Doeren apologized to Florida State coach Jimbo Fisher on Tuesday after accusing the Seminoles of faking injuries in their win over the Wolfpack on Saturday.

"It was a great college football game with tremendous plays made by both teams. That is where the focus deserves to be. I have the utmost respect for Jimbo, his staff and players. FSU played a great game and earned the win." NC State coach Dave Doeren, in tweeted apology to Florida State

In a statement released on Twitter, Doeren said: "I have apologized to Jimbo Fisher & want to apologize to his staff, players & FSU fans for my comments that took away from a tremendous football game. I left an emotional locker room & took those emotions w/ me to the press conference. It was a great college football game with tremendous plays made by both teams. That is where the focus deserves to be. I have the utmost respect for Jimbo, his staff and players. FSU played a great game and earned the win."

The two coaches had traded barbs since Doeren's initial comments Saturday, after No. 1 Florida State rallied to beat NC State 56-41.

"The tempo we had was working until all the crazy fall-down things were going on and the clock kept stopping," Doeren said after the game. "You know the refs can't do anything about that, but it's horrible the way the tempo gets slowed down by these injuries. We went fast in the first quarter; I guess there were no fake injuries."

When asked about his comments Monday, Doeren said his team has dealt with "multiple people falling down" and limping off the field through the first five games of the season and called it "unsportsmanlike" behavior. He specifically pointed to one second-half play in which a Seminoles player "walked off the field as slow as humanly possible, and he's back in the game."

Asked for a response to Doeren's comments on Monday, Fisher told reporters in Tallahassee, Florida: "I accuse him of not knowing what he's talking about. They're not fake injuries. No one faked injuries, and we wouldn't do that. We'll coach Florida State, and he can coach North Carolina State."

Fisher elaborated Tuesday, saying he and Doeren had exchanged emails and emphasizing he wasn't mad at the Wolfpack coach.

"Dave and I have always gotten along great," Fisher said. "He's a super guy. Competitors after a game [when] it's hard-fought and you have a chance to win a game, those things happen. We all say things. That's part of this game and the emotion that goes with it. He wrote an email, and I wrote one back. He's a great guy, and they got a heck of a football team; he's doing a good job there."

This is not the first instance in which a high-tempo team has accused its opponent of faking injuries. Last season, then-Washington coach Steve Sarkisian accused Stanford of faking injuries to slow the Huskies' tempo in a 31-28 Cardinal win.

Information from ESPN.com's Jared Shanker contributed to this report.