NC State Future Out of Conference Football Schedule

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A couple of times a year we highlight the current/known future opponents on the Wolfpack’s out of conference football schedule just to keep the the information fresh and accessible to our readers.   In light of this weekend’s trip to Greenville and the recent announcement on September 15th that NC State’s future series with Oklahoma State has been cancelled, we thought we would follow-up and share the current nature of the future schedule as we currently understand it:

 

NC State’s current Non-Conference Football Opponents

2011: @Cincinnati, South Alabama, Liberty, Central Michigan

2012: Tennessee (Atlanta), @ UConn, South Alabama, The Citadel

2013: Central Michigan, @ Pittsburgh, ECU, Richmond

2014: @ South Florida, @ Central Michigan, Presbyterian

2015: @ South Alabama

2016: @ ECU

2017: @ LSU

2020: LSU

 

A couple of quick comments, some of which come from some of our previous entries on the topic:

  • Not sure if I see State ever actually traveling to South Alabama in 2015. That feels like a game from which one might ultimately buy out.
  • I hope nothing changes with the LSU series like our Notre Dame and Tennessee series’. 
  • Where is the home game as reciprocity for our trip to UConn in 2012.
  • Right now, the most appealing road game on the horizon is a 2013 visit to Heinz field to play Pitt while breaking in a new quarterback (the year after Glennon’s R-Sr season)
  • In an entry just like this a couple of years ago, I threw out the name “Skip Holtz” because (a) we were matched-up against his ECU Pirates and (b) I considered him a potential candidate to one day be the Head Coach at NC State.  With this said…allow me to highlight:
    • Randy Edsall, whose UConn team we play in 2012.
    • Skip Holtz, whose South Florida team we play in 2014.

 

On September 23rd, 2009 at 10:41pm, 61Packer posted the following comments in another entry about this topic:

I really like playing Tennessee, but weren’t they originally scheduled as a home and away instead of just once in Atlanta? If State officials were responsible for this change, then shame on them.

LSU is obviously a great matchup for us. Please don’t move this series to one game in Atlanta.

I like playing Cincinnati home and away. They’re an up-and-coming program and there’s nothing wrong with that.

Ditto for Oklahoma State. We don’t play enough of the Big XII teams, and they will be a quality opponent.

I don’t like playing ECU, I never have, and probably never will. However, it’s a game most fans from both schools seem to want, and if we continue to play them, so be it. It makes a lot more dollars and sense to play the Pie-Rats as long as that game (and the UNC game) is home and away and NOT in Charlotte. If we had to play UT on a neutral field to get this matchup, Charlotte would’ve been much better for us.

I don’t mind an occasional game with the regional FCS teams like Richmond and Western Carolina. Those games fall under the category of the OOC wins we need, and there’s enough fan interest to make these games fun. That having been said, the South Alabama games, 3 of them in fact, make no sense, especially going down there to play. Does Jed owe somebody a favor or something?

Mobile is a nice place but not for Wolfpack football. If our school’s administration is really interested in building a program instead of sending fans to “nice places”, may I suggest State College or Morgantown? How about Auburn, Athens or Columbia (again)? There are two good teams in Mississippi and one in Arkansas, and hopefully one day we’ll have a game scheduled against a Pac 10, MWC or WAC team.

I don’t know what kind of a program South Alabama has or aspires to have, but if anyone’s interested, they play Mississippi Valley State this Saturday at 5pm in Chicago. Whoa!

 

On September 24th, 2009 at 11:01am, GAWolf posted the following comments in another entry about this topic:

Unless I misread SFN’s entry, we’re getting two for the price of one on that Southern Alabama series. Two homes for one away against, as someone pointed out, what would likely be one of the worst D1 teams. 2011, 2012 are at home. 2015 is there. To totally break that down, would we not want to play THERE when they were fledgling D1 as opposed to giving them several more years to get up to par with talent? Silly, but something to thing about.

The flip to OOC schedule doesn’t matter what bowl State plays in is also true. If the games don’t matter, why not try to knock off some decent teams for that truly special season once in a blue moon. If we Herb-like back our way into the ACC Title game with a mediocre conference record in a bad ACC, we win and go to the BCS bowl regardless of OOC record. If we lose the ACC Title game under the same scenario, will winning cupcake games place us in a better bowl than losing to major football programs? I’m actually asking… I don’t know the answer.

Truthfully, we’re to major traditional powerhouse teams what ECU is to us. It’s really a no win situation. They risk losing to us in a down year (or us an up year), and they don’t get a huge feather in their hats for beating us. Is that not why we’re seeing so many major programs back out of deals with us? Or is it mostly poor management?

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36 Responses to NC State Future Out of Conference Football Schedule

  1. Alpha Wolf 10/14/2010 at 12:42 PM #

    As I read these future schedules, what stands out to me is how many home games we’ll have. Given that the season is 12 games, and four of those are home conference games, we ALWAYS should have three home non-conference games and one away non-conference game to provide us with seven home games.

    Games against S Alabama and Liberty are there to basically make money, but in reality other than the tailgating, going to the game has very little value. One per year, sure. It never hurts to have a low-risk tuneup.

    But next year BOTH of them is nothing more than a soak-the-season-ticket-holder proposition.

  2. tvp1 10/14/2010 at 1:02 PM #

    Am I correct that we are playing two FCS schools in both 2011 and 2012? If so, that’s really dumb.

  3. MP 10/14/2010 at 1:42 PM #

    Why the #### would any ACC team schedule a game AT Central Michigan? Let’s hope that’s a buyout too.

  4. tjfoose1 10/14/2010 at 2:00 PM #

    Two words sum up why we see this kind of scheduling: Polls, Money.

    The App St. OOC schedule reference is right on point. App St schedules those games to make their team better, but the FCS has a playoff.

    App St can afford the high likelyhood of a loss trade for team development opportunities. They do not rely on uninformed voters who look no further than record and who the next guy is voting for to determine their post season destiny.

    I too would like to play better opponents, but until NC State raises its national profile, it is not pragmatic per attaining our goals.

    That said, the lack of quality in our OOC is not for lack of trying, per the referenced cancelled series with Notre Dame, Tennessee, and Oklahoma St.

  5. bigwolfpacker 10/14/2010 at 5:11 PM #

    Pitiful. We dont have a marqee home OOC game until 2020 against LSU. How does this happen? Lee Fowler is a no good POS! He did everything to run this athletic dept into the ground.

  6. tjfoose1 10/14/2010 at 5:19 PM #

    “We dont have a marqee home OOC game until 2020”

    Wow. Putting it that way, that is pitiful. Hopefully we’ll be able to switch the schedule around and improve this.

  7. bradleyb123 10/14/2010 at 5:43 PM #

    Can the bad scheduling be chalked up as Fowler’s last official foul up?

  8. hball57 10/14/2010 at 6:48 PM #

    I read all the comments about Central Michigan. Didn’t they finish 10-2 last year, win the MAC and beat Michigan State? Isn’t this the school that Brian Kelly was at before Cincinnati and the one that Cincinnati’s current Coach is from? So we do a 2 for 1 with a FBS school that has a good recent record and has been to bowls.

    My point is if you want to complain about the schedule, know the opponents and stop looking at the Laundry.

  9. 61Packer 10/14/2010 at 9:58 PM #

    Yes, Central Michigan did finish 12-2 last season as MAC champs. Yes, they won at Michigan State. Historically, the Chips been one of that conference’s best teams in football. This is EXACTLY why I think we’re running a big risk to play these guys 3 times, with the last being a road game.

    It’s not that we don’t know who we’re scheduling. I think playing ANY team from the MAC on the road is risky business if you’re a Division 1 team looking to build a top ten football program.

  10. tjfoose1 10/15/2010 at 1:02 AM #

    Central Michigan will be a completely different team when we play them. The lost their coach to Cincy, and their 4 year starter QB to graduation.

  11. jdmann1288 10/15/2010 at 1:34 PM #

    As a Liberty Alum I am excited to see the Flames come to Raleigh, now my old classmates can see why I drive to Carter-Finely every weekend instead of walking across campus to the Liberty game. Go Pack

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