2014 NC State Football Schedule is Out with Quick Thoughts

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Here is NC State’s 2014 Football Schedule. The open dates are good, 9/27 – 10/18 is bad.

Aug. 30 Georgia Southern (Wolfpack Club Day)
Sept. 6 Old Dominion (Ag Day)
Sept. 13 @ South Florida
Sept. 20 Presbyterian
Sept. 27 Florida State
Oct. 4 @ Clemson
Oct. 11 Boston College (Hall of Fame Day)
Oct. 18 @ Louisville
Oct. 25 Open
Nov. 1 @ Syracuse
Nov. 8 Georgia Tech (Homecoming)
Nov. 15 Wake Forest
Nov. 22 Open
Nov. 29 @ North Carolina

NC State will play five of its first seven games at Carter-Finley Stadium in 2014, according to the schedule released today by the Atlantic Coast Conference office. In total, the Wolfpack will face seven bowl teams and three teams that finished the 2013 campaign ranked in the top 15, as Dave Doeren’s squad will host defending National Champion Florida State and travel to Clemson and Louisville.

Full presser here

Aug.30th – Georgia Southern (2013 record 7-4)
A new coach takes over a program that graduated 16 seniors and will return 23 Jrs. Georgia Southern also went to The Swamp last year and upset the Florida Gators….without completing a pass. JackWolf prediction – W

Sep.6th – ODU (2013 record 8-4)
ODU comes to Carter-Finley with Sr and talented QB Taylor Heinicke but the Monarchs defense struggled mightly last season giving up 79pts to Howard, 59 to Citadel, 66 to Rhode Island and finishing the year by letting UNC hang 80 on them. JackWolf homer prediction – W

Sept.13th – at USF (2013 record 2-10)
South Florida struggled big time under first year coach, Willie Taggert, winning only 2 games against Cincy & UCONN. Taggert is a good coach and State went through similar struggles last year so anything can happen here.JackWolf homer prediction – W

Sept.20 Presbyterian (2013 record; does anyone care??)
JackWolf homer prediction – W

Sept.27th – Florida State (2013 record 14-0)
The defending National Champs come to Raleigh the week after then pound Clemson. Our only hope is a hangover game but even then this FSU team is talented enough to win in a venue that has giving the Noles trouble in recent years. JackWolf homer prediction – L

Oct.4 at Clemson (2013 record 11-2)
The Taj Boyd error is finally over but Clemson reloads with another top rated QB and somehow has been able to hang on to Chad Morris for another year. Does the Pack get redemption for the epic hose-job that was the Brian Underwood call? Jackwolf homer prediction – L

Oct.11 Boston College (2013 record 7-6)
As long as Andre Williams has graduated we have a chance. JackWolf homer prediction – W

Oct.18 at Lousiville (2013 record 12-1)
There is no telling what we will get out of this year’s Louisville team without Teddy Bridgewater and with new-ish coach Bobby Petrino. They have the talent to be good and Petrino is a good coach but a lot will depend on who they find to replace Bridgewater for their first season in the ACC. Jackwolf homer prediction – L

Oct. 25 Open
Resting after a “red wedding”-esque stretch

Nov.1 at Syracuse (2013 record 7-6)
If we don’t give up two 100 yard rushers again this year this game should be pretty close. Jackwolf homer prediction – W

Nov. 8 Georgia Tech (2013 record 7-6)
Vad Lee transferring. Paul Johnson on the hot seat. Triple option. This will be interesting. Jackwolf homer prediction – W

Nov.16th – Wake Forest (2013 record 4-8
Wake struggled last year but still finished ahead of State and beat us in Winston-Salem. The Pack fares much better against the Deacs in Raleigh and this year could be a tough transition year for first year coach Dave Clawson. JackWolf homer prediction – W

Nov. 22 Open
Prepping for UNC

Nov.29 at UNC (2013 record 7-6)
For the first time this rivalry/non-rivalry game closes out the season (TOB wouldn’t be happy about this). Let’s assume the Tar Heels aren’t too busy tweeting about Russell Wilson to show up they’ll field an experienced QB and some talented offensive weapons. Jackwolf homer prediction – L

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  • 01/23/2014 at 12:06 PM #38173
    compsciwolf
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    In an earlier comment by FergusWolf it was suggested that some teams strengthened their schedule by playing Notre Dame, but isn’t this the result of the agreement between the ACC and Notre Dame that Notre Dame would play so many ACC teams a year? I don’t believe these count as conference games, since in Football Notre Dame is still independent, but maybe I’m remembering wrong. I believe we play Notre Dame in 2015. All of this is from memory, so perhaps I’m wrong, but the point is that I believe these teams had Notre Dame put on their schedule for them, so that shouldn’t be a credit given to them for creating a hard(er) non-conference schedule.

    The same goes for teams like FSU playing Florida, Clemson playing South Carolina, etc. These are the rivalry games that are played every year, they just happen to span conferences. Our rival just happens to be in conference, so we don’t get the benefit of one non-conference game always being scheduled for us every year. I believe some of these games might even be legislated to be played every year.

    01/23/2014 at 12:26 PM #38175
    tjfoose1
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    I just believe that you get better by playing teams better than you.

    I agree. But where the NC State Football program is today, it also needs games it should win for that first step of the long journey. I use “should win” loosely. I’m taking nothing for granted in the first few games, nothing. Our 2014 2-deep could conceivably consist mostly of 1st and 2nd year players.

    01/23/2014 at 2:16 PM #38187
    FergusWolf
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    compsciwolf…you are correct. I overstated the strength of some of the teams schedules, and we too will “luck” into a ND game in the relatively near future.

    That doesn’t detract from my position that a bad OOC schedule hurts ticket sales, hurts recruiting, and in my opinion delays the development of our players.

    And, foose….you are absolutely right, but there are FOUR OOC games, if we scheduled ODU, USF, GS, and added a real team from a real conference, my compaints would diminish significantly. Even better if we went with 2-2 (real games to patsy games).

    Of course, as someone will remind me, we nearly lost one of our “patsy” games last year. So maybe we are the patsies and no real team will schedule us, because they don’t want to destroy their OOC SOS.

    01/23/2014 at 2:28 PM #38190
    JasonP
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    ^ Right on with that last statement.

    I’ll bet that Georgia Southern, ODU and USF all look at us on their schedule and expect to win that game.

    We don’t scare anyone. I think we’ll be better than last year, but I don’t fully expect us to be 4-0 going into the FSU game either.

    01/23/2014 at 3:15 PM #38204
    Pack85EE
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    But if all goes well, we will be 4-0 going into the FSU game and healthy. At the end of the season when (example) we are 7-5 (3-5 ACC) we’ll go bowling and be better prepared for next year. Next year, we need a better OOC schedule. Is ND next year or 2016?

    01/23/2014 at 4:33 PM #38212
    VaWolf82
    Keymaster
    FergusWolf wrote:

    I just believe that you get better by playing teams better than you.

    Alot of people claimed that ACC football would get alot better after adding FSU in the 90s. How did that work out?

    01/23/2014 at 8:30 PM #38219
    TheCOWDOG
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    !:-)
    ACC with a NatChamp?

    It took awhile …but…

    I made a comment today off screen to a couple of people you know.

    A player wants to play “up” and a real player expects to win when they do.

    01/24/2014 at 6:47 AM #38229
    tjfoose1
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    FergusWolf, I’m with you 100%, IF this becomes a pattern with our CURRENT coach. I’m giving a pass for 2014, and a provisional one for 2015. POI: NC State play Notre Dame in 2016, at CF.

    01/24/2014 at 6:54 AM #38230
    tjfoose1
    Participant

    ACC with a NatChamp?
    It took awhile …but…

    Not THAT long, seven seasons (1999).. at least not when considering the last time NC State won a conference title.

    01/24/2014 at 9:26 AM #38238
    Daniel_Simpson_Day
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    I understand the complaints about the scheduling.

    I offer the question what is the ideal schedule? IMHO the best schedule is one FCS team (with so many of them moving up to FBS I can’t say for sure anymore who they are), two mid-lower level non-BCS teams (NIU, Marshall, WKU, etc.) and one middle level BCS team (Ok St, Tenn, Ill, WVU etc).

    There are two problems with this. One is team/program performance for a lot of the teams that are historically in the 40+ RPI range varies. It’s not shocking when a MAC school goes 3-9 this year and two years later is 9-3 (or vice versa). Because of recruiting waves, coaching changes, etc. their performance has more variance. Schedule makers can’t account for that. The second problem is we have to get more home games than away games (i.e. 2 for 1) from the non-BCS FBS schools. I don’t know if we have the stature to demand 2 for 1 deals from a lot of schools our fans want to see.

    01/24/2014 at 10:34 AM #38242
    BJD95
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    Ideal Schedule:

    Part One:

    Two home-and-home series. Each should be INTERESTING, one more national, one regional/sectional. My best example of how you could do this with a thin roster – Purdue and Kentucky. Long-term, this should be better than that. No reason why we shouldn’t be playing South Cakalaky again, the Head Ball Coach wants to.

    Part Two:

    A better-than-laughable semi-cupcake. Here’s where you play your Sun Belt or MAC team, at home.

    Part Three:

    Pure cupcake. If it’s FCS, at least play a decent one so your players get a legit workout.

    That’s a balanced approach, and eminently doable. Piques fan interest and gets you some actual TV exposure.

    01/24/2014 at 10:38 AM #38243
    wolf71
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    Total agreement with BJD95, nice balanced approach.

    01/24/2014 at 11:32 AM #38245
    Wolfanatic
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    The laws of nature demand a home and home series with Nevada…..

    01/24/2014 at 2:09 PM #38256
    budfox88
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    Guess I won’t be going to any games again this year! Watch more football on my laptop AGAIN!

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