One of the dirty little secrets of college athletics is that people actually bet on games. That’s why points spreads exist. A proper point-spread incents equal betting on both sides of the point-spread and creating a 50/50 proposition (if the oddsmakers get things right). But, sometimes it doesn’t work out that way. Sometimes the oddsmakers […]
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Eugene and Young Submitting Their Names to the NFL Draft Advisory Board
Two For Pack Consult NFL Draft Advisory Board N.C. State juniors Willie Young and Jamelle Eugene are submitting their names to the NFL draft advisory board for feedback on where they might be selected in the draft in April if they choose to leave school early, coach Tom O’Brien said Tuesday. Additionally, linebacker Nate Iriving […]
Focus on Football
We’ve got some solid football items to digest today. Heather Dinich has ranked the ACC Bowl games in order of most entertaining. The Wolfpack vs the Scarlet Knights is a strong second on the list. It’s interesting a bowl that is not an official ACC Bowl and includes the ACC’s 10th team is ranked so […]
5:45pm Update: NC State to play Rutgers in PapaJohns.com Bowl
Nothing different from what we have been sharing…official announcement will be out later… 5:10pm Update Our spies in Florida tell us that the Champs Bowl is going with Florida State, so this would mean that most of the rest of the projections of the conference’s bowl line-up should fall into place as previously projected. This […]
Wolfpack’s Bowl Picture Becoming More Clear (Updated 11:35am)
NC State’s bowl chances now appear to rest on the University and the ACC’s ability to secure an at-large bid. It seems apparent now that the NCAA and the ACC are standing firm by not allowing a 6-6 NC State team take one of the 9 bowl bids affiliated with the ACC. Over the past […]
Mario Williams Loves Wearing Red
For one home game each year the NFL’s Houston Texans’ deviate from their primary uniform colors of blue and white to wear special ‘Battle Red’ jerseys. In Houston, the game is looked upon with excitement as something different and, in most years, it seems the struggling Texans’ franchise rises to the occassion and submits one […]
Good Seats Are Still Available to the ACC Title Game (updated)
Heather Dinich of ESPN is reporting that Virginia Tech has sold 3,000 tickets and Boston College just under 2,000 tickets to this weekend’s ACC Title Game in Tampa. This is probably due to two factors: first and foremost, the overall economy has either negatively affected people or if it hasn’t, a lot of folks are […]
ACC Went 6-4 This Season Against God’s Conference
Some odds and ends to fill the time before the Wolfpack tips against Davidson Saturday and bowl bids are finally settled: The Big Lead: Head to Head, The ACC Beat the SEC This Year We all know the Pac-10’s a joke. And everyone thinks the ACC is a joke. We compiled the season-long stats, and […]
NC State’s Evolving Bowl Picture (Update #7: GT Accepts Peach)
Folks, stay tuned to this entry, as we’ll be adding updates as they roll in relative to the Wolfpack’s bowl destination. We learned on Monday that NC State was out of the running for one of the nine bowls with ACC ties after the NCAA held a lengthy teleconference with conference and bowl officials to […]
SFN Bowl Projections (12/3 Update)
It’s been a crazy 48 hours in the world of ‘Bowl Tracking’, but some developments over the last few hours have opened visibility to a likely scenario of how NC State ultimately could play in the EagleBank Bowl in Washington, DC despite the news from yesterday that such a bid was unlikely. We have been […]
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