Georgia Tech Vs. Florida State: 2024 Season Opener Insights

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00:06Coaching your perspective, getting a team ready for a

00:10season opener is always a unique challenge. It gets even more

00:14difficult when you're across the pond in Dublin playing in week

00:18zero. How do you try to make this if you're Mike Norvell and

00:21Brent Key for Georgia Tech as normal as possible of game week

00:26preparation? Well, you can't you can't really do the next

00:29week the same way because you've got such a long trip,

00:31but you do try to make sure they get to that amount of rest time

00:34the amount of preparation the the preparation the day before

00:37the day before that. So it's as much like a game time

00:40experience, but it is going to be different do they get tired

00:43do you come out there and be a little bit more conservative

00:45and what you're doing till you get down and comfortable. So

00:48it's not it's not something you can prepare for because you

00:51haven't done it before. Coach Battle, let's focus on the

00:53actual game that will be played over in Ireland inside of

00:57a stadium. The Knowles enter this season ranked 10th in the

01:00country in the preseason AP poll. They're an 11 and a half

01:03point favorite for this all ACC affair in their season opener

01:07against Georgia Tech. As you look at these two teams entering

01:11their first game of 2024. What do you think the key matchup is

01:14going to be? Well, I think one you've got DJ you at Florida

01:17State. He's new to their system. They want to run the football

01:21because that's what they do. Well, and that's what that's

01:23what the other team Georgia Tech did not do very well stopping

01:26the run. So you want to run the ball and kind of let DJ you

01:29kind of manage the offense not bring him into strong because

01:32he's new to their system and they need and they can run the

01:35football. They believe against this football team.