NC STATE FOOTBALL Joe Giglio (N&O) Preview: N.C. State at Connecticut Keep an eye on RB Lyle McCombs, UConn At 5-foot-8 and 166 pounds, the biggest problem in defending Lyle McCombs isn’t tackling him but finding him behind UConn’s offensive line. McCombs moved his way through traffic last season for 1,151 yards as a redshirt […]
’12 Football
Friday Farrago
NC STATE FOOTBALL Jacey Zembal (TheWolfpacker.com) Offensive line passes first test NC State’s offensive line didn’t give up a sack or a quarterback hurry, and its top two running backs averaged 4.8 yards per carry against Tennessee in the season opening loss last Friday in Atlanta. Is there room for improvement? Of course, but it […]
NC State Football By The Numbers – Post Tennessee Edition
It’s a new season and it’s time to start up another edition of NC State Football by the Numbers with statistics and rankings. Here’s last year’s post bowl game final stats if you want a refresher on the 2011 edition of the Wolfpack. Team Statistics Offense Points Per Game: 21.0 (ACC Rank: 8, Nat’l Rank: […]
Thursday Compendium
NC STATE FOOTBALL Joe Giglio (N&O) Pack has another opportunity to bounce back from loss What goes down, must come up, at least it has for N.C. State’s football team since the start of the 2010 season. N.C. State’s players talked before this season about getting off the “win-one, lose-one” roller coaster of the past […]
Volmageddon – Why It’s So Emotionally Devastating
After a full night’s sleep…it doesn’t feel one bit better. Last night was an unmitigated disaster. The opportunity the game presented (to make a statement on the national stage) will not be repeated. Even if we win the ACC – admittedly a laughable notion right now – we will just be the new sacrificial lamb […]
Good ‘Ol Rockytop: Tenn game day thread
I hope to be singing that song around 11:00 tonight. Here is the game day thread. Game thread being discussed on the SFN Forums as well.
Friday Farrago (GAMEDAY EDITION)
It’s finally here. Game Day. It has taken 5 loooonnng months but we’ve finally “arroved” fellow Wolfpackers to what we’ve been waiting for…NC State Football!!!! Enjoy the headlines and feel free to use this as your open thread until kickoff. NC STATE FOOTBALL GoPack.com Sizing up State and Tennessee The wait is finally over. Officially, […]
Thursday Compendium
NC STATE FOOTBALL Brett Friedlander (starnewsonline.com) Injured WR Underwood back on the field for Wolfpack Coach Tom O’Brien said Wednesday that sophomore Bryan Underwood has returned to practice and might be available to play in the season opener at the Georgia Dome against the Volunteers. Underwood had been sidelined since undergoing arthroscopic knee surgery on […]
Wednesday Woolgathering
NC STATE FOOTBALL Brett Friedlander (starnewsonline.com) No easing into the season for state college teams Friday night at the Georgia Dome, the N.C. State football team will play Tennessee in an atmosphere that looks and feels like a postseason game. And not one of those lower-tier bowls named after a department store chain or fast […]
Program on the Rise?
For any dyed in the wool fan of NC State Football, or pretty much any Wolfpack athletic program for that matter, it is completely unnecessary to state the obvious…NC State has been the Rodney Dangerfield of the ACC more often than not in the past. That’s why the recent onslaught of positive press has some […]
