For those of you who are new around here or need a refresher, the “morning after” feature with yours truly attempts to take a dispassionate view of NC State’s football performance each week by allowing some distance between the game and putting of fingertips to plastic keys. This “cold take” comes once the rageahol has been removed from the blood by my weakened, Wolfpack-sports-induced fatty liver, thus eliminating getting too high after a win, or, as in this case, too doom and gloom after a loss.
NC State dominated USC-East, an up and coming SEC foe, in its season opener yet lost by doing the very two things that allow a team to dominate and lose: turn the ball over and suck on special teams.