Pump up time! To bowl, or not to bowl?

HUGE game for the Wolfpack today! (Link) All the marbles on the line — either Tom O’Brien will go to his third bowl in five years at NC State…or he won’t. We will either have two straight winning seasons…or we won’t.

Joe Giglio sets the table for you here…but nobody did a better job of setting the historical backdrop of today’s game than our very own ‘ruffles’ in this fantastic entry. You can click herefor CFN’s take on the game; and Caulton Tudor projected a similar score (link).

The regular-season finale finds the Wolfpack (6-5, 3-4 ACC) with a lot more to gain than anyone could have guessed three or four weeks ago. It’s hard to remember that Maryland (2-9, 1-6) started the season with that impressive win over Miami. That game must seem like a million years ago to Randy Edsall. Wolfpack, 31-14.

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365 Responses to Pump up time! To bowl, or not to bowl?

  1. WolftownVA81 11/26/2011 at 4:12 PM #

    Would like to have seen Creecy been given the opportunity to run in that last TD. He’s played great all day.

  2. WolftownVA81 11/26/2011 at 4:13 PM #

    Special team doing their part to let MD get good field position on the re-kick.

  3. Wolfpack93 11/26/2011 at 4:14 PM #

    I take back what I said about finding 11 fans to play defense at the half. These guys are proving me wrong and I’m loving it.

  4. pack76 11/26/2011 at 4:16 PM #

    Okay, we’ve got the ball and we must go down and score, not go into a deep freeze!!!!

  5. hoop 11/26/2011 at 4:16 PM #

    That’s a HUGE penalty against the Twerps, not giving Graham enough space to catch the kick.

  6. bill.onthebeach 11/26/2011 at 4:16 PM #

    Time for the knock out punch…. drive /run it down the middle of field, eat clock and score one more.

    Fear the turtle-twerps.

  7. GAWolf 11/26/2011 at 4:17 PM #

    RyanP best take his ass back to the dart board and stop wqtching..

  8. Lumbeeindian17 11/26/2011 at 4:17 PM #

    @93….. yeah im glad they didn’t do that

  9. El Lobo Loco! 11/26/2011 at 4:18 PM #

    balll recovered by the pack…. we may even win!!!

    @Hamlet: didn’t we lose to ECU in 1999??? I was watching at Sammys and had too many beers….

  10. TheAliasTroll 11/26/2011 at 4:20 PM #

    power pack! power pack! oooooooooooh! oooooooooh!

  11. pack76 11/26/2011 at 4:20 PM #

    Oh, no!!! Here we go with the deep freeze! We can’t count on making first downs on 3rd down everytime.

  12. pack76 11/26/2011 at 4:21 PM #

    WOLF!!!!!!! PACK!!!!!!!

  13. tjfoose1 11/26/2011 at 4:23 PM #

    JSRy2k,

    Microcosm, exactly. I also wrote game and season would end the same way.

    Both started slow, then we looked dead, then a late push at end…

    Win the game, “win” the season with a bowl game. Lose the game, lose the season.

  14. WolftownVA81 11/26/2011 at 4:25 PM #

    Well the players have certainly put their heart into this comeback. They deserve props for the effort.

  15. El Lobo Loco! 11/26/2011 at 4:25 PM #

    1st and goal???? for the win…..
    i need another beer

  16. Wolfpack93 11/26/2011 at 4:25 PM #

    Wish we didn’t need a penalty to get the first down, but I’ll take it for a win.

  17. GAWolf 11/26/2011 at 4:27 PM #

    Best case scenaro for SFN: we win, but barely…..we had every right to be concerned.

  18. Hamlet 11/26/2011 at 4:27 PM #

    El Lobo Loco,

    Actually, it was probably O’Cain’s 97 season I am thinking of. We finished 3-5 in the conference but 6-5 overall after defeating ECU in the final game. All of the delusional fans in the stands were chanting “Bowl! Bowl! Bowl!” but of course we didn’t make one…nor should we have.

    We kept O’Cain two more seasons because of that one win probably. Thus, the joys of being an N.C. State fan.

  19. WolftownVA81 11/26/2011 at 4:29 PM #

    Screw up.

  20. packalum44 11/26/2011 at 4:29 PM #

    If I had the choice to lose and lose O’Brien or win and keep him….easy call.

  21. Wolfpack93 11/26/2011 at 4:29 PM #

    Finally! His eyes didn’t give his target away!!

  22. pack76 11/26/2011 at 4:30 PM #

    PACK SCORES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Go DEFENSE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  23. Pack Mentality 11/26/2011 at 4:30 PM #

    I take back what I said about TOB. This showed motivation and heart.

  24. Avid109 11/26/2011 at 4:31 PM #

    Wow! A gutsy play on 3rd down! Where did that come from???

  25. WolftownVA81 11/26/2011 at 4:32 PM #

    PM, from TOB or Players? I’d say players.

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