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Future NC State Football Out of Conference Schedule

This recent article out of Richmond sparked us to update our perpetual following of NC State’s Out of Conference football scheduling. A few quick bullets: * The question marks beside Tennessee 2013 is a function of our not knowing if the scheduling of the 2012 game in Atlanta serves to consolidate and replace the two games with [...]

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Stat of the Day: Sagarin Strength of Schedule ratings (2000-2008)

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State to play in ‘09 Glenn Wilkes Tourney?

Relevant Background: April 23rd: Lowe in Media; Pack playing in Hawaii April 24th: Katz Correction, no Hawaii for Wolfpack In this article today we ran across the following: Look for N.C. State to be a part of the eight-team field that will participate in the third annual Glenn Wilkes Classic in Daytona Beach from Nov. 19-22. No contracts had [...]

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NC State Won’t Be The Only Team Playing Two 1-AA Teams Next Year (updated w/ teams needing games)

Something to remember when our rival’s fans try to lord their superior schedule over us next year: North Carolina will play Georgia Southern in football next season on Oct. 10, a team official confirmed, filling it’s 12-game schedule with a second Division I-AA team. The opening in the Tar Heels’ schedule occurred when coach Butch Davis opted [...]

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Another ’shining’ moment for simpleton, Fowler – Terry Holland Issues Scheduling Statement (9pm Update)

As much as we enjoyed the ironic twists in Lee Fowler’s comments today (highlighted here), we also knew that Terry Holland wasn’t just going to sit back and let Fowler get away with it. Earlier in the day I actually got an email from a buddy at NC State saying the following: “What is Lee Fowler [...]

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Stat of the Day – BBall SOS

Did you know that the average out of conference strength of the schedule for the past six college basketball national champions is 150?

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Series with Marquette & other dates (Updated 7/25)

Link MU and NC State have agreed in principle to a home-and-home series beginning this season at the RBC Center in Raleigh, N.C. The series had been in the works for the past month or so, with NC State working behind the scenes to move a guarantee game in order to accomodate MU. Having recently been able to [...]

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Non-Conference Gets Upgrade for ‘09, ‘10, ‘11 (Updated)

Those looking for tough out-of-conference scheduling need look no further than January 3, 2009 when NC State comes down to Gainesville to pay me a visit in a showdown with the Florida Gators. Of course we have yet to see how the conference schedule pans out, but most likely this will be the “tune-up” game [...]

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OOC Strength of Schedule

UPDATED 4/1/2007 @ 17:00 (Scroll to Bottom) Since this is the third time that I’ve documented the OOC strength of schedule for the ACC, I couldn’t come up with anything new and interesting to put into an introduction. But I can point new-comers to the first two entries on OOC SOS and especially to [...]

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Future OOC Football Opponents

This entry originally ran in October of 2005 and is updated when new games are announced. Most recent update is October 18, 2006. Additionally, this entry provides some great comments and perspective on the art & science of scheduling that deserves a link in this entry. NC State’s current Non-Conference Football Opponents: 2006: Akron, [...]

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Interactive: State OOC in Sendek Era

In light of Carolina’s out of conference basketball success this season….I thought that I would open up the forum for your thoughts on the topic of NC State’s out of conference success over the last decade. Let’s try to compile a list of NC State’s Ten Best Out of Conference Basketball victories of the Herb Sendek [...]

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