Book your room now: Wolfpack to play Tennessee in Atlanta
… in 2012. From the N&O:
N.C. State is set to open the 2012 football season against Tennessee in Atlanta. UNC is trying to work out a deal to open the 2010 season in the Georgia Dome against an SEC team.
The Atlanta Sports Council and ESPN teamed up to organize the Chick-fil-A College Kickoff in 2008, with Alabama beating Clemson in the Georgia Dome.
UNC has three possible opponents for 2010 — LSU, Georgia or Ole Miss — but has to get either South Carolina or Rutgers to agree to move its scheduled game from that season.
Virginia Tech takes on Alabama in this season’s opener in Atlanta on Sept. 5.
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It beats playing Gardner-Webb or Murray State, but why Atlanta? Why not home and home? Or Charlotte?
^ When one is trying to climb up, one takes what one can get.
It is a Chick-Fil-A sponsored event with ESPN on board so they would have it in Atlanta. Think of it as the preseason Peach Bowl!
I like it…should be great exposure for both programs and bulks up the OOC schedule.
I will be there for sure. For someone whose dad has had season tickets to UT since the mid-60s, and with my going to the games my entire childhood before coming to NC State, this is a must see game for me. Heck, last year on Labor Day weekend, I went to Columbia with my wife, WV Wolf, and a friend on Thursday and then flew out to LA with Dad to watch the UT-UCLA. Great trips, but sorry football for sure.
I am saddened though by the fact that the UT-NCSU series is a neutral game and not a home and home series. I guess UT wanted two sure wins so that is why they are playing UNC in a home and home in 2010 and 2011 (I think those dates are right.)
It will be the only game on the tube at that time with broad exposure. Would be really great if we whoop up on the Vol’s. Not so great if they whoop us on us. So probably good for the program.
Me personally, I’d rather be tailgaiting at CF.
Preseason Peach Bowl…I like the sound of that.
Maybe big-time (or at least big-hype) games early in the year is a way to have a dual bowl/playoff system. Bowls in the early part of the season, playoffs at the end of the year.
Is this in addition to the on-again, off-again home and home series with the Vols that has been kicking around our schedule for at least five years, or is this the replacement for that series?
Classof89, I believe this is a replacement for all that chatter about the home and home series.
Correct, we won’t be making the trip to Knoxville that I was REALLY looking forward to. Damn it.
Still, an opening game in Atlanta against an SEC foe (with national TV coverage and hopefully by then, national hype on both sides) is great for our program.
It’s a good development for the Holes, too.
Yea, but in the words of the wise Roy Williams, we could give a shit about the Tarheels.
The ONLY development from the holes is that they REFUSE to play FL or GA, and its OleMiss or piss. Which is what they’re doing, in fear.
This will be interesting. I really want to take care of the Gamecocks this year so I can talk trash to my SEC co-workers. The Monte Kiffin angle will be interesting as well.
Texpack, you beat me to the Monte Kiffin comment. If I’m in the States then, that’d be a fun game to go to. A little too early to plan for me. I don’t even know what I’m doing next month.
I plan to fly there in a helicopter with my friends, Lone Ranger & Tonto for old times sake! Go Wolfpack!
Is the home and home with Oklahoma State still on?
We have family in Tulsa that are OSU alums and are very interested in seeing these games played.
we should play OPEN the next week.
While I’m happy to be playing a high-profile game against a quality SEC opponent, I’m disappointed that this game is taking the place of a home-and-home with UT.
I would like to see the AD make good on all of these “promised” big-name home-and-homes. We were supposed to have Notre Dame, but got hosed and UNC ends up with them instead. We were supposed to have Tennessee, but now we’ll just get them once at a neutral site. No great road trip for our fans, and no high-profile team coming to visit Carter-Finley. Who is the next high-profile school we have a series with? LSU? At this point, given past history, there’s a 50/50 shot that those games won’t happen.
At least we’ve got some mid-level teams on the schedule: USC, Pitt, Okie State. But remembering the atmosphere around the Ohio State game in 2004, I look forward to that kind of game at Carter-Finley in the future.
This is potentially the biggest non-conference game we’ll have been involved w/ since the 2003 Ohio State game.
I hate that this is such a long way off.
As Fuquay mentioned, we haven’t done much of a job of getting a high profile national game since then. It irks me to no end that the Heels are getting these games instead.
Perhaps we can ride the white stallion into the stadium ala Monte. Hope to ride that bloodhound or whatever their mascot is out of the stadium.
Lane will have UT on probation by the time 2010 gets here! Put that in the bank!
I think the Pitt game could be pretty high -profile next year. Isn’t Pitt supposed to be up there in the Big East race?
Also, maybe our last game of the season will be pretty high profile this year- let’s hope.
The time is right to strike hard on the western NC, Atlanta and western SC talent pools.
Davis will be gone from unc in 2 years.
Kiffin will be out in Knoxville in 2-3 years.
Dabo is going to blow chunks at Clemson starting this year and he’ll be gone in 3.
Spurrier will be out at SC in 3 years.
The last time State was in a like situation, and I’m talking about making a really dent in the competition, was back in Mack Brown’s first two years. Tennessee was down, Ford was out at Clemson, unc stunk, and somehow State blew it.
The stars are about to line up.
McCallum
I wonder if TOB will still be “building” a program by then?