Ok, everybody, granted, it has been a whirlwind couple of days by mid-July standards. First we had SEC Network analyst Cole Cubelic put NC State in his initial college football playoff field, and then we had Phil Steele positing that NC State could be one of a dozen teams to make a run at the playoffs.
NC State is very unlikely to reach the playoffs this season, but NC State is also going to be pretty good, and what those guys are recognizing is the potential, perhaps, for a breakout year, and at the extremes of probability, a really really breakout year.