College football attendance continues to decline each year, hitting a 14-year low in 2014. We can only speculate the exact reasons for the decline, which are probably some combination of chronically poor non-conference home scheduling, endless TV coverage and the poor cell reception stopping an entire generation from updating Instagram. Also, traditional powers Texas, Michigan […]
NC State’s Top 10 Plays of 2014
Nice little compilation of top plays from the Wolfpack’s 7-5 regular season. A few quick observations: (1) I kinda feel like there had to be something from State’s beatdown of USF in the top 10, right? Maybe that Matt Dayes dash to the left side for a TD? (2) It’s kinda sad that our own […]
NC State vs Central Florida in Bitcoin Bowl
We updated you in real time on the blog and on our twitter account of how everything went down this afternoon. So, there is no reason to re-hash it now. You can click through the last couple of entries to figure it out. The #Pack is headed to the beach! NC State will play in […]
5pm: Looks Like State Slipping in Bowls [5:12 update]
A barrage of reports are leaking about the ACC’s Tier I dominos dropping…and they aren’t dropping in State’s favor. @McMurphyESPN reporting Notre Dame to Music City. ESPN reporting BC to Pinstripe. Others have Duke in Sun. So, Belk has to take L'ville? — statefansnation (@statefansnation) December 7, 2014 With this said, WHO KNOWS where State […]
Bowl Update: Late CFP Rankings Might Derail Pack’s Plans for Charlotte [Updated 4pm]
We won’t take the time to reset the entire bowl process here since we have touched on it in past entries, but over the last few days we have become more and more hopeful/expectant that the NC State Wolfpack would fall into the ACC’s slot in the Belk Bowl in Charlotte on December 30th. It […]
State Wins ACC Opener as ACC officials call 51 fouls
State shook off the road loss at Purdue and — after six early turnovers tonight — used a solid effort to defeat Wake Forest at home by a score of 78-65. For those of you keeping count in Las Vegas, the Wolfpack entered the game as a 9.5 point favorite. State improves to 7-1 (1-0) […]
Purdue 66 NC State 61
NC State drops its first game of the season on the road at Purdue and slides to 6-1. Purdue is a young team that has a chance to end up on the NCAA Tournament bubble; so this one may come back to haunt us in March unless we’ve taken care of more business in the […]
NC State @ Purdue (9pm, ESPNU)
The ACC starts tonight’s ACC-Big Ten Challenge action already in the hole 0-2. You can click here for the set up and some great perspective on what is going on around the league. The Boilermakers come into tonight’s game with a 5-1 record against a decent schedule of the following teams: Samford 80-40 Win IUPUI […]
All-ACC Teams Highlight Pack’s Current Talent Gap
BEFORE the 2014 football season began we posted a couple of preview items on SFN that served to set the table for the coming year. Article #1 asked and answered the question – How bare was the cupboard? (linked here)… …while Article #2 looked at NC State’s roster through a comparative lens with the other […]
Rivers leads Chargers Comeback
If you didn’t get to see Philip Rivers’ leading the Chargers in a come from behind victory yesterday then you missed a thing of beauty. We’ve got some quick highlights below…and, we also have a hodge-podge of some more fun and interesting college football and basketball bytes linked up for you here.
