Miami Head Coach Mario Cristobal Details and Previews Upcoming Matchup Against Virginia Tech

Virginia Tech travels to Miami on Friday night for a matchup with the No. 7 Hurricanes

Sep 7, 2024; Miami Gardens, Florida, USA; Miami Hurricanes head coach Mario Cristobal looks on before the game against the Florida A&M Rattlers at Hard Rock Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Sam Navarro-Imagn Images / Sam Navarro-Imagn Images

Things are not going to get easy for Virginia Tech this weekend after their loss to Rutgers. The Hokies open up conference play with a trip to Miami on Friday to face the No. 7 Hurricanes and Heisman front runner Cam Ward. Yesterday when he gave his weekly press conference to start the week, Hurricanes head coach Mario Cristobal talked plenty about the upcoming game vs Virginia Tech.

"We have an opportunity to open up conference play against you know one of our storied rivals um can't say enough about them I think we've seen enough tape to know these guys are as talented is anybody um that we have faced and then some especially talented up front, very powerful, explosive, twitchy top 10 sacks in the country for a reason and they're deep um they got all kinds of you know they play their base stuff but they also have significant amount of exotic pressures in our high pressure organization they're very organized they're really good tacklers um on defense they're long, a lot of athletic ability, a lot of speed, they do a good job on the back en, one of the top cover teams in the country and then they're again complimented by awesome special teams as Virginia Tech always is and offensively I think um you know you've all seen it, I mean this is a team that returns 20 I believe of 22 starters from last year's team, one of the favorites not only to to win the conference but to be in the college football playoff. They're loaded, they're a loaded football team and their quarterback is an extremely explosive dangerous accurate player and great, great leader, and they are big, massive upfront, great running game explosive receivers. Looking forward to a great matchup."

It is going to be a tough matchup for the Hokies on Friday night and they are going to have to play a near perfect game to try and put themselves into position to try and win the game.