Early Test for FSU
Florida State has a pretty comfy conference slate this year in the ACC. They avoid Virginia Tech and North Carolina out of the Coastal Division and get Miami and North Carolina State at home. This is a team that has enough talent, if they can pull it all together, to go undefeated in the ACC.
However, after a couple of cupcakes to start off the year, the Seminoles will host Oklahoma on September 17th in one of the biggest early season games of the year. The winner will remain a top five team and the loser will be, temporarily at least, out of the national title picture.
Going up against the Sooners will test Seminole quarterback E.J. Manuel and the entire FSU defense, but Florida State will have one thing on their side…well more like 82,300 screaming things. Doak Campbell Stadium will be rocking for the night game and one of the biggest home games for Florida State in recent memory.
Florida State and Oklahoma have matched up six times, with the Sooners winning five of those contests. However, this is the first time the game will be played in Tallahassee. Florida State will have the advantage of playing two games prior to taking on OU, first against Louisiana-Monroe and then Charleston Southern. The team should be brimming with confidence after those two games. In the meantime, Oklahoma hosts Tulsa during the season’s opening weekend and then has a bye week. That extra game experience should give FSU a slight advantage as they will have more time to fix any kinks. Yet, Oklahoma probably will not have as many kinks to work out anyway.
But the bigger factor will be the lights over Doak Campbell and the 82,300 fans who have not seen their Seminoles play such an important game in the last five years. That will make this a close game and certainly one worth closing out your football Saturday with on September 17th.
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