Backing The Pack, a N.C. State Wolfpack community

In some non-Gottfried news, here are some scheduling notes for football and basketball that popped up Wednesday: -- The football program has agreed to a home-and-home series with Old Dominion...

Box Score Plays Total Yds Yds/Play Yds/Carry* Yds/PassAtt NCSU 62 322 5.2 0.44 8.7 Cincy 80 503 6.3 5.5 7.7 (Yds/carry stats are calculated after removing sacks from the equation.) Yep, 0.44 yards...

-- Wolfpack deflated in Cincinnati loss. -- NCSU-Cincinnati Observations. How bad did it get last night for the defense? At one point in the second quarter, with end A.J. Ferguson out with a knee...

NC State dropped its first serious non-conference test, and the flaws on display portend some very bad things.

Final thoughts on tonight's game.

Matt Opper runs SBN's Cincinnati Bearcats blog, Down The Drive. Below he's answered a few of my questions, and over at his site I've answered a few of his.   1.) It's hard sometimes to know...

Cincinnati's offensive talent was never in doubt, and this season, they've rediscovered good fortune.

-- Thursday's a homecoming for Tom O'Brien and several assistant coaches and players. --  Last year's loss to NC State sent UC reeling; Butch Jones thinks State was the best team they played in...

NC State lost another defensive starter to injury.

NC State's Thursday night game against Cincinnati will be on national television and in 3D. Never having seen a football game in 3D, I don't know if this is a positive development or not. Seems...