Florida State blog answers questions before Miami Hurricanes game

What is Florida State’s plan defensively? N’Kosi Perry is only making the third start of his collegiate career and this will be the fourth game he will play in overall. Is the plan to make him beat them and stack the box?

Without a doubt, and this is what I wrote about in our game preview this week, one of the only ways that the Seminoles can win this game is to make Perry look like a redshirt freshman.

You won’t see a lot of seven or eight-man rushes for the sake of respecting all the athletes that are on the Miami offense that can embarrass the Seminoles, but the goal will be to confuse him with different looks at times…

Such as bringing a cornerback blitz like they did several times last week to pressure Louisville’s freshman quarterback.

CW-What does Florida State plan to do about the crowd noise? Despite the incessant claims by many in the Florida State fan base under Mark Richt the Miami Hurricanes have an incredible home field record and advantage.

Kirk Herbstreit said last season that the renovated Hard Rock Stadium had a different vibe. The Notre Dame and Virginia Tech Games reminded him of the Orange Bowl and he said that when Miami is home at night there no place in the country that feels similar. It clearly won’t be a home game, but Miami will have a huge home-field advantage.