against teams with a pulse fsu averages

[edge]

3 of their 4 leading tacklers are DBs. That's all im gonna say.

They running the Manny Diaz defense? If so, we run for 300.

 

[Bearly]

I hate FSU from the bottom of my heart, but this game won’t be a blowout. I mean I wish! Could you imagine destroying them 52 - 10 on their own field…. I’d be swimming in the tears thread for days. If Miami were to blow FSU out, it’d be with a score like 31-13.

I think the score is gonna be something like 27-24 or 28-23, hopefully with Miami winning. The Malzahn Castellanos pairing was solid for them, and I know people keep pointing at the weather (lame excuse in my opinion), but Miami doesn’t pull away from teams the way I feel like they should. Play style is grind it out, punish the other team, run the clock, hopefully score without ******** ourselves with penalties, and lean on the defense. FSU doesn’t need a ton of time to run their offense/score… Will be interesting to see how effective FSU is at negating the dline/rush by scrambling/using their option and trick plays. The secondary is going to need to be lights out, linebackers are gonna need to be able to make up a ton of ground fast. I don’t think the D line will be as impactful in this game as usual (because of scrambling and eye Candy), and “eye discipline”/”setting the edge” will be important. Obviously hope I’m wrong, but this will probably be another close rivalry game, and hopefully an instant classic that goes our way. Get your blood pressure meds ready.

 

[MiamiVice7]

I think it's just the explosives. Not that they're some offensive juggernaut, but they've generated a lot of explosives, and that type of thing can flip a game quickly.

29 plays of 10+ yards in their two P4 games
11 plays of 20+ yards
7 plays of 30+ yards

So they've averaging 3.5 plays of 30+ yards per game.

Last year, we had the most explosive offense we've ever seen, and we had 26 plays of 30+ yards in our 10 games vs P4 schools. 2.6 per game.

Figure out a way to not get massive chunk plays on you, and we win by a couple scores. But that's kind of what they want to do and how their offense is set up.

This is my thinking as well. Play in and play out we will likely look like the better, more dominant team.

But at the end of the day, it’s about the scoreboard.

We dominated Florida the entire game except for one drive. Even still, had they hit one or two explosives they could’ve taken the lead in the fourth quarter. Same for Notre Dame. What if they had hit 2 to 3 long passes or runs late in the game and scored 10 to 14 points?

Our style of play recently would make us vulnerable to a team who keeps it close and pops a handful of big plays. I’d like to think we will mitigate that by opening up the office a little bit more, whether it’s because the ball is dry, or maybe JoJo/Lofton/Lyle get going.

But the point stands. We must limit explosives, and we need to hit a few ourselves and/or get turnovers. Can’t let these guys hang around because they will take shots and have the athletes to hit them.

Need to be efficient, move the sticks, and get 7s instead of 3s. And it’s time to show everyone we can hit the big ones too.

 

[#1cane]

34.5 pts per game
448 yds of total offense
203yds of passing yds
243yds rushing

cmon now

they're not trash, but this elite offense talk ... idk ... we COULD lose, but i'll be due to a bunch of ME's on our part

Simpson for Bama could not hit the ground against FSU. Then in the second half when Bama was behind they were forced to goon fourth downs and failed to covert giving FSU a short field. Against Virginia FSU got 3 T.O.'s My take is all Miami has to do is play a clean game to win.