TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Florida State\u2019s defense is coming off its best performance of the season, but coach Mike Norvell said the Seminoles now have to prove they can do it again as they head to Louisville on a short week.<\/p>\n
Florida State sacked Virginia\u2019s quarterback 10 times in Saturday\u2019s 38-7 win. Norvell said the Seminoles\u2019 defense set the tone with its physical play.<\/p>\n
\u201cI thought our defense overwhelmed them with physicality, speed, just emotion. To have 10 sacks, I don\u2019t know the last time that we\u2019ve had 10 sacks here but it was impressive to see,\u201d Norvell said.<\/p>\n
The 10 sacks were Florida State\u2019s most in a game since 1997. The Seminoles held Virginia to 205 total yards and repeatedly got stops in key situations. Virginia went three-for-15 on third down and zero-for-four on fourth down.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe had five three-and-outs. That\u2019s dominant style of defense,\u201d Norvell said.<\/p>\n
Wide receiver Micahi Danzy said the performance looked like what Florida State expects to be on both sides of the ball.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt felt like old Florida state being dominant on just both sides of the ball. So we push it forward, we gained our confidence, its an away game, and we’re going to go out there and dominate, too,\u201d Danzy said.<\/p>\n
Florida State heads to Louisville on Friday night, and Norvell said last week\u2019s defensive showing doesn\u2019t automatically carry over.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat does that mean moving forward? We got to go earn it. We got to earn it this week,\u201d Norvell said.<\/p>\n
Florida State is also trying to end a road skid. The Seminoles are looking for something they haven\u2019t done in nearly three years: win a true road game. Florida State has lost 10 straight true road games, with its last win coming at Florida in 2023.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Florida State\u2019s defense is coming off its best performance of the season, but coach Mike…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":419606,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[232,234,233],"class_list":["post-419605","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tallahassee","tag-tallahassee","tag-tallahassee-headlines","tag-tallahassee-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419605","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=419605"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419605\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/419606"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=419605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=419605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=419605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}