The ACC announced the set schedule for each member team’s football season Thursday morning, a week after its reveal of each team’s 10 ACC opponents. According to a statement issued by the ACC, each team will have two byes that are “strategically placed throughout the schedules for maximum flexibility.”
Unpredictability is what makes college football so interesting. In a normal year, the lead-up to NC State’s 2020 football season would be punctuated by questions about redshirt sophomore quarterback Devin Leary, the completely overhauled coaching staff and how hot head coach Dave Doeren’s seat is. But this year, the intrigue is just whether or not each Power Five conference can actually pull off some semblance of a season.
Not every new student coming to NC State comes in with the same level of knowledge about NC State Athletics. Some have been lifelong fans, others may have only seen a handful of events or none at all. Whichever camp you fall into, we wanted to make sure you knew at least one name on every NC State team, so here is the who is who of NC State Athletics.
Sports are an integral part of the college experience; there is no doubt about that. But right now there are a lot of question marks surrounding what football and other fall sports will look like this year. Will there be a football season? Will fans be able to attend games? What about the other fall sports? While we might not know the definitive answers to these questions, we can look at what the ACC has already said, what other conferences and schools are doing and what has happened with professional sports in the past month to give you a better idea of what fall sports might look like this year.
The 2010s was an eventful decade for Wolfpack football. It saw five bowl wins in eight appearances, four former Wolfpack QBs make their NFL debuts and plenty of exciting football games. From heated rivalry games to record-setting comebacks, here are the top five football games to go back and watch from the last decade:
With the ACC’s move to a divisionless “10 plus one” model for its college football season, there are stark differences between NC State’s planned games and the teams it will face off against this year. Let’s take a look at the differences, a quick look at each team the Wolfpack will face and what that means for the difficulty of NC State’s path.
On Wednesday, July 29, the Atlantic Coast Conference announced its plan for fall sports, including a 10 conference plus one non conference game schedule for the football season. Men’s and women’s soccer, volleyball, cross country and football can all begin competition the week of Sept. 7-12. Fall competition for men’s and women’s golf and men’s and women’s tennis has been canceled.
On Thursday morning, NC State football announced a home-and-home series with the Florida Gators, starting with a game at Carter-Finley Stadium in 2026 and ending in Gainesville, Florida in 2032.
Every athlete’s career has to come to an end, and that was the case for NC State offensive line coach John Garrison in 2004 after he was released by the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. Garrison was a standout center for two years at Nebraska, earning All-Big 12 recognition twice, and after a short NFL career, knew it was time to call it quits.
