TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Florida State is searching for answers after a 44-20 loss at Louisville, and the urgency is only growing with a rivalry matchup against unbeaten Miami next.<\/p>\n
The Seminoles are 3-3 overall and 1-2 in the Atlantic Coast Conference. They led Louisville 14-0 in the first quarter, but the Cardinals adjusted and outscored Florida State 38-6 the rest of the way.<\/p>\n
Coach Mike Norvell said the team has to play a complete game to get the results it wants, including sharper defensive play.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe want to be a defense that sets the edge. We want to be a defense that has an edge to our defense, and we are not doing that good enough,\u201d Norvell said.<\/p>\n
Norvell also pointed to the need for improvement across the board.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere\u2019s some things scheme related need to be better and that has been challenged. I will say that it\u2019s a talent to coaches, it\u2019s a challenge to players, you have roles and responsibilities, do your job,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
As Florida State prepares to face the Hurricanes in Miami Gardens during the school\u2019s \u201cRivalry Week,\u201d the challenge is steep. Miami enters the game undefeated at 5-0.<\/p>\n
Norvell described Miami\u2019s offense as difficult to defend, highlighting the quarterback\u2019s ability and the balance of the attack.<\/p>\n
\u201cA very talented quarterback, but he\u2019s able to make things happen as well with his movement. But just his timing and I guess his precision of what he\u2019s able to do in the passing game. Throwing to really good people as well and having a well-balanced attack with what they do in the run game so it\u2019s a challenging offense to defend,\u201d Norvell said.<\/p>\n
Jonathan Holston, the head football coach at Amos P. Godby High School and a former Louisville defensive lineman, said Florida State will need to execute regardless of how the matchup looks on paper.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s a paper match up before they play. So it\u2019s a lot of teams that\u2019s the best team on paper that end up losing. Florida State, they just got to go out there and play ball,\u201d Holston said.<\/p>\n
Florida State has six games remaining this season, with three at home and three on the road. The Seminoles trail Miami 37-33 in the all-time series dating back to 1951.<\/p>\n
Florida State and Miami are set to kick off at 6 p.m. Saturday night at Hard Rock Stadium.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Florida State is searching for answers after a 44-20 loss at Louisville, and the urgency…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":426164,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[232,234,233],"class_list":["post-426163","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\/426163","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=426163"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426163\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/426164"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=426163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=426163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=426163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}