Ah, 2007. Chuck Amato has been fired, and Tom O’Brien has taken his place to restore the NC State program to some semblance of respectability. A freshman named Russell Wilson takes his redshirt season and watches all of the action from the sideline.
The Wolfpack struggled to a 5-7 (3-5) finish that season, and it was such a mundane run with several multi-score losses that I had a difficult time thinking of anything noteworthy about the entire affair. But then I remembered: Kirby Freeman.
On Nov. 3, 2007, NC State and Miami met at the Orange Bowl for what would turn out to be a mostly unbearable slog with a million field goal attempts.