NC State might feel a bit stuck in neutral these last few years, and certainly if you strictly by results, that’s true. After all, following up an 8-5 season with back-to-back 7-6 campaigns doesn’t exactly scream “upward trajectory.”
But the advanced statistics generally agree that NC State improved from 2015 to 2016, Bill Connelly’s S&P+ in particular. In a post on the Mothership earlier Monday, he looked at five-year trends in S&P+ for each FBS school.
NC State checks in at No. 50 for the five-year span of 2012-16 with an S&P+ average of 3.