Tag Archive | "Bowls"
ACC Football Transformations Ahead
This is a busy time of year in college athletics as teams prepare for bowl season, basketball hits high gear, recruiting in all sports heats up, and college football coaches jump on and off the coaching carousel at an accelerated pace and ultimately change the fortunes of programs for years to come. Please remember [...]
Continue reading...Pack doesn’t lose! while conference season develops
Sunday, October 25, 2009
FINALLY!! I Saturday of football passed without NC State losing a game and without one of our opponents winning ACC Player of the Week honors! Great work by Mike Archer for holding the Idle Byes to a big goose egg on the scoreboard. Speaking of the conference, we’ve got some really interesting items [...]
Continue reading...2010 ACC Bowl Line-up
Thursday, October 8, 2009
October 8th New announcement today that the Emerald Bowl has been replaced by the Independence Bowl in the ACC’s bowl priority. The N&O has more. The conference’s affiliation with the Emerald Bowl in San Francisco will be replaced by a new deal with the Independence Bowl in Shreveport, La. The ACC parted ways with the Gator [...]
Continue reading...ACC To Get Sun Bowl Tie-In? (Update: Deal Approved)
Wednesday, August 19, 2009
More changes may be afoot for the ACC’s bowl imprint. Sun Bowl and CBS officials will decide today whether to retain an association with the Big East or switch to the Atlantic Coast Conference. The opponent would remain a team from the Pacific 10. If it happens, this would add another New Year’s Day decent [...]
Continue reading...Great Read on O’Brien and His Coaching Philosophy
Sunday, December 28, 2008
Update 1: Instead of making a new entry, I’ll add this bit here: Tom O’Brien said today that starting safety Clem Johnson will indeed be ready to play tomorrow in the Pizza Bowl. This is a positive for the Pack as it adds depth to a defensive secondary that’s sure to be tested all [...]
Continue reading...Focus on Football
Tuesday, December 9, 2008
We’ve got some solid football items to digest today. Heather Dinich has ranked the ACC Bowl games in order of most entertaining. The Wolfpack vs the Scarlet Knights is a strong second on the list. It’s interesting a bowl that is not an official ACC Bowl and includes the ACC’s 10th team is ranked so highly. [...]
Continue reading...5:45pm Update: NC State to play Rutgers in PapaJohns.com Bowl
Sunday, December 7, 2008
Nothing different from what we have been sharing…official announcement will be out later… 5:10pm Update Our spies in Florida tell us that the Champs Bowl is going with Florida State, so this would mean that most of the rest of the projections of the conference’s bowl line-up should fall into place as previously projected. This development [...]
Continue reading...Wolfpack’s Bowl Picture Becoming More Clear (Updated 11:35am)
Thursday, December 4, 2008
NC State’s bowl chances now appear to rest on the University and the ACC’s ability to secure an at-large bid. It seems apparent now that the NCAA and the ACC are standing firm by not allowing a 6-6 NC State team take one of the 9 bowl bids affiliated with the ACC. Over the past [...]
Continue reading...NC State’s Evolving Bowl Picture (Update #7: GT Accepts Peach)
Tuesday, December 2, 2008
Folks, stay tuned to this entry, as we’ll be adding updates as they roll in relative to the Wolfpack’s bowl destination. We learned on Monday that NC State was out of the running for one of the nine bowls with ACC ties after the NCAA held a lengthy teleconference with conference and bowl officials to [...]
Continue reading...SFN Bowl Projections (12/3 Update)
Tuesday, December 2, 2008
It’s been a crazy 48 hours in the world of ‘Bowl Tracking’, but some developments over the last few hours have opened visibility to a likely scenario of how NC State ultimately could play in the EagleBank Bowl in Washington, DC despite the news from yesterday that such a bid was unlikely. We have been updating [...]
Continue reading...Wake and Maryland aren’t options for Congressional Bowl?(updated 3:34 pm)
Sunday, November 30, 2008
Afternoon update: At this point, I am not sure that this information is accurate. However, this appears to be great news though I disagree with Heather’s conclusions. As we have mentioned, Maryland is not an option for the Congressional Bowl because they have exams on the same date as the game. Apparently Navy’s [...]
Continue reading...A Season to Remember
Saturday, November 29, 2008
NC State closed out the 2008 regular season with a convincing 38-28 win over Miami. The team that (for September and most of October) looked as if it could be one of the all-time worst Wolfpack squads turned out to be one of the most memorable. Clemson’s thumping of South Carolina means that [...]
Continue reading...Some Quick Miami Hits
Thursday, November 27, 2008
Hurricanes to use three new starters on defense Saturday “The defense has only three interceptions this season. ”They’ve had their breakdowns,” Shannon said. “They’ve done some good things and they’ve done some bad things. . . . You have to address things and go from there.” Miami Playing for Champs Bowl in Orlando Saturday “Interviews with five bowl officials [...]
Continue reading...New D.C. bowl has N.C. State on its radar
Tuesday, November 25, 2008
May said the EagleBank “would love” to have N.C. State, in part because the bowl would be only a five-hour drive from Raleigh and would be accessible for Wolfpack fans. He said the bowl expects Navy to bring a strong crowd. Of course, Tom O’Brien’s status as an alumnus of Navy certainly doesn’t [...]
Continue reading...ACC May Send a Bowl Team to DC
Saturday, March 29, 2008
If given the option of Boise or Washington, DC I’ll take Washington every time. Check out the progress of the “Congressional Bowl” in this link. The proposed Congressional Bowl took a major step toward becoming a reality on Monday when it signed an agreement with the Atlantic Coast Conference. Sean Metcalf, co-founder of the District of Columbia Bowl [...]
Continue reading...Good Luck, Clemson
Monday, December 31, 2007
The Clemson Tigers take the field tonight in the Chick-Fil-A bowl in what I think will be the ACC’s ‘defining’ bowl game of 2007. The Tigers game tonight against Auburn will only count as one game – the conference is currently a respectable 2-1 in bowls thusfar – but the magnitude of this battle [...]
Continue reading...Dear ‘Jags’, The Feeling is Mutual
Friday, December 28, 2007
The Boston College Eagles are gearing up to play Michigan State today in the Champs Sports Bowl in Orlando..and evidently, the Eagles aren’t very happy to be there. We provide the following from BC’s top blogger, Eagle in Atlanta: Let me echo what Jags is saying — this is not where we wanted to be, but [...]
Continue reading...More Info On Lack Of UVA’s Gator Bowl Ticket Sales
Tuesday, December 25, 2007
Even though this article is 10 days old, we thought everyone might want to read it. We also want to save it for future years when iit is bowl selection time. Before we explain why we’ve come to that point, let’s rewind to 2002. I remember all the whining and complaining by Virginia fans that they [...]
Continue reading...2007 Bowl Primer
Tuesday, December 18, 2007
Eleven years ago, there were 18 bowl games. Today there are 32, some operated by ESPN. No wonder the opposition to a playoff by the bowl system. After a run of five in a row, NC State is home for the holidays for the third time in four years. With a more manageable schedule approaching coming [...]
Continue reading...2007 ACC Bowls and Bytes
Monday, December 3, 2007
This link will take you to the bowl schedule for the entire country. The ACC Bowl Menu is set and can be seen by clicking here. Of course, if you read SFN then you would have seen that we accurately projected the entire bowl line up BEFORE Sunday. A couple of interesting NC State tidbits: * NC State [...]
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Wednesday, December 16, 2009
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