Soon there's gonna be football

We're almost there--about five weeks and State will be kicking off against Georgia Southern with a whole bunch of unanswered questions. Some immediate answers would be appreciated but that's never really the point of the first week, which is officially Oh Thank God There's Football And We Get To Tailgate Week.

Soon there's gonna be football, and it's hard to feel like this season could be any worse--or even comparable--to what happened in 2013. Wasn't that long ago we were in these places:

(By the way, a huge thanks is due @ncsu1, who is pretty much the extent of the NC State YouTube rabbit hole.)

While the month of complete and blind optimism is not quite here, I can offer a preview: State is going to win more games than anybody figures, and we'll all live happily ever after.

I'm sorry, that's most likely not the case, but it's almost football season and I've been on YouTube for a while.