Typically there wouldn’t be much need to approach a football season-opener with urgency, but circumstances stripped your typical schedule of the preliminaries. Diving right into league play isn’t ideal, but it’s what we got, and NC State needs to get off on the right foot for a variety of reasons.
For one thing, it’d be real nice to snap the program’s losing streak to Wake Forest, a run of misfortune that’s been annoying as hell. The Deacs also present an opportunity, because this is one of the weaker teams on the schedule. How many more times do you figure that NC State will be favored in a game this year?