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Canes v Noles - Predict the Score

I don't see how this game is even close. Miami's defense is elite. Love and Price, Byrum Brown, and Baugh were all shut down. If you combine their rushing yards together, the total yards was under 150. FSU will not have consistency in running the ball. Most of their yards will come from a 50 yard trick play that they may hit twice. How is their O-line supposed to consistently open holes for their running game? What WR/TE do you see having a day against the secondary OR Castellanos has the time to find a WR?

FSU runs a 3-3-5. How is that defense going to stop the running game? How can FSU's pass rush get to Beck? And Beck is absolutely elite when the O-line gives him time. Against ND, at one point, Beck was 12 of 12 passing. Just sitting back there and throwing the ball to every receiver.

FSU stinks, man. The narrative of why "this game could be close" is not because of the actual team that is lining up against Miami. The narrative of why this game could be close is because "of the atmosphere" OR "Miami is on the road" OR "It's a rivalry game". If those are the reasons why the game COULD be close, that tells me that one team (Miami) is significantly better than the other team (FSU). And since that's the reality: Miami rolls.

Miami 31
FSU 9
 
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OrangeBowlMagic said:
Misdirection scares me. Maybe it's the 25 years of watching Miami defenses be completely fooled by it, but the #1 thing people talk about with Heatherman is it looks like 15 white hats on defense are flying at full-speed to the ball. You know **** well Malzahn is going to try to use that to our detriment. End-arounds, throw-back screens, counter, overloading one side and running back the other way, weak-side runs, etc. I want us to be ultra-aggressive, but disciplined in pursuit.
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If FSUs misdirection actually works against UM then that will be the epitaph for our season. We weren’t going to win the ACC or even make it to the playoffs if a soft team could beat us with eye candy.

I know I will get a lot of heat for this, but to be perfectly honest, if Memphis Mike is able to win this game, I would be forced to agree with the FSU fans who say Norvell is a better coach than Cristobal. Norvell had a 10 win season, then a perfect regular season with ACC championship, and then after a 2 win season, was able to rebuild his roster within the span of one offseason to be good enough to beat a UM team that took Cristobal 4 years to build. If Norvell is able to rebound that quickly after a 2 win season, that tells me Cristobal is stuck in the wrong century, playing an obsolete style of college football. That said, I think this game goes the way that the games between the Lincoln Riley Oklahoma teams and Bama or another SEC powerhouse used to go. Razzle dazzle works until you get hit by a steamroller.
 
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Squid Bumciorek said:
If FSUs misdirection actually works against UM then that will be the epitaph for our season. We weren’t going to win the ACC or even make it to the playoffs if a soft team could beat us with eye candy.

I know I will get a lot of heat for this, but to be perfectly honest, if Memphis Mike is able to win this game, I would be forced to agree with the FSU fans who say Norvell is a better coach than Cristobal. Norvell had a 10 win season, then a perfect regular season with ACC championship, and then after a 2 win season, was able to rebuild his roster within the span of one offseason to be good enough to beat a UM team that took Cristobal 4 years to build. If Norvell is able to rebound that quickly after a 2 win season, that tells me Cristobal is stuck in the wrong century, playing an obsolete style of college football. That said, I think this game goes the way that the games between the Lincoln Riley Oklahoma teams and Bama or another SEC powerhouse used to go. Razzle dazzle works until you get hit by a steamroller.
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I think coaches are judged by more than one game in a season, but I can't disagree with this.

For example, if Mario goes 11-1 with this being a close loss, and fsu winds up 7-5 with losses to Clemson, UiF, NC State, and Pitt.....is Norvell a better coach? Eh.

Regardless though, I'm with you, losing this game would be disappointing. I just know it's really hard to win road rivalry games, and for some reason Vegas only seems to think we're 4.5 points better than them on their field.
 
First 2 drives we pound the round heavily. Dink and dunks sprinkled in. 3rd drive we'll hit them with a play action deep shot for a TD. It'll be 17-7 at half.
Second half we salt the game away with slow methodic drives and they give up.
They'll **** out a TD during garbage time

31-21

It was written
 
P-Tizzle said:
I don't see how this game is even close. Miami's defense is elite. Love and Price, Byrum Brown, and Baugh were all shut down. If you combine their rushing yards together, the total yards was under 150. FSU will not have consistency in running the ball. Most of their yards will come from a 50 yard trick play that they may hit twice. How is their O-line supposed to consistently open holes for their running game? What WR/TE do you see having a day against the secondary OR Castellanos has the time to find a WR?

FSU runs a 3-3-5. How is that defense going to stop the running game? How can FSU's pass rush get to Beck? And Beck is absolutely elite when the O-line gives him time. Against ND, at one point, Beck was 12 of 12 passing. Just sitting back there and throwing the ball to every receiver.

FSU stinks, man. The narrative of why "this game could be close" is not because of the actual team that is lining up against Miami. The narrative of why this game could be close is because "of the atmosphere" OR "Miami is on the road" OR "It's a rivalry game". If those are the reasons why the game COULD be close, that tells me that one team (Miami) is significantly better than the other team (FSU). And since that's the reality: Miami rolls.

Miami 31
FSU 9
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I don't want to jinx it, as blowout wins in this game up North can be hard to come by, but it's hard to argue with any of this, especially the narratives that have been generated.

IIRC, the last time both teams were ranked and playing this game in Tallahassee was 2013. UM had just come off a death-struggle win against Wake Forest, and even though we were all sipping the kool-aid, there was a real talent disparity between the two teams. Fisher had largely out-recruited Golden, and they simply had more talent.

It feels that way for this one, only advantage to UM. To your point, Malzahn will generate a big play here or there with some trickery, but UM's talent, particularly at the line of scrimmage, will be far too much for FSU to overcome. The O and D Lines have physically overwhelmed every team it has played against, and I don't think FSU has the horses to go toe-to-toe with these two units for 60 minutes.
 
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chicanego said:
I don't want to jinx it, as blowout wins in this game up North can be hard to come by, but it's hard to argue with any of this, especially the narratives that have been generated.

IIRC, the last time both teams were ranked and playing this game in Tallahassee was 2013. UM had just come off a death-struggle win against Wake Forest, and even though we were all sipping the kool-aid, there was a real talent disparity between the two teams. Fisher had largely out-recruited Golden, and they simply had more talent.

It feels that way for this one, only advantage to UM. To your point, Malzahn will generate a big play here or there with some trickery, but UM's talent, particularly at the line of scrimmage, will be far too much for FSU to overcome. The O and D Lines have physically overwhelmed every team it has played against, and I don't think FSU has the horses to go toe-to-toe with these two units for 60 minutes.
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I know in my post, I said that FSU MAY hit a couple of trick plays, but again, in order to hit trick plays ie HB pass, WR Pass, flea flickers et al, for those to work, your OLINE has to protect long enough for them to develop. Do you see that happening for FSU's OLINE? I don't
 
Mike Thot said:
Sorry my wiener is too engorged to even think about the score right now.
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I feel the same way about this game as I did for usf.

We have ptsd from so many years of disappointment, let down, and a combination of our own delusion.

So we sit here and are saying that a team that went 2-10 last is gonna keep it close because bama was too stupid and ill prepared for them.

I posted that fsu punched bama in the mouth and the field was wet and all that beta sht that needed a JHall test boost and 3 lines of protein powder laced with micronized creatine.

We just rag dolled 2 of the top offensive lines in the country.
Beat 2 of the best secondaries in the country and ran all over the runner up in last years cfb final.
Then we dominated a squad that beat 2 ranked teams.
All on soaked fields while limiting our offense.

But we are sayin that because it’s a rivalry game away we are only favored by 4 points and it’s gonna be a battle.
The fugg??!!

If you are telling me than corn row can build 2 squads in 3 years that are completely different in both players and coordinators and have them win 10 games each while having the season between those be 2-10…… then we hired the wrong coach.

If we lose or keep this less than a touchdown then I don’t wanna here anybody clown shoulder rub man anymore.

your telling me that this dude can assemble a squad that can beat bama and us with throwaways and has been!!!???

I’m not saying they won’t score. But you don’t just patch up a team in the offseason and beat a team with our short but impressive resume. And you shouldn’t keep it close either.

So either fspoo is a real playoff contender and was sleeping on Virginia the same way bama was sleeping on them, or fspoo played 2 mid tier p4 squads and went 1-1. And if that’s the case then again we should roll.

And if we don’t, then we have to reconcile with reality that despite the accolades we either don’t have the talent or we don’t have the coaching or scheme to maximize it. And it’s costing millions.

Rivalry or not we shouldn’t be late in the 4th qtr with our ahhsshols puckered tight enough to make diamonds on Saturday night because prison Mike is a genius.
 
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