Date of Game – November 6th
Returning Starters – 13 (7 offense, 5 defense, kicker)
2009 Record – 5-7 (2-6)
School’s Location – Raleigh, NC
Mascot – Wolfpack
Conference – Atlantic Coast
Head Coach – Tom O’Brien (16-21 at NC State, 91-66 career)
Fun Nickname for this Game – The “Why Do I Always Forget That NC State is Even on the Schedule Every Year” Game
Strengths
- QB – Russell Wilson was the ‘08 1st Team All-ACC QB and led the conference in TDs last season, so look for another strong season for KP’s new baseball teammate. Also, backup Mike Glennon is a stud-in-waiting.
- Health x 2 – Last season, NC State had more injuries to key players (Nate Irving, Toney Baker, Donald Bowens, Anthony Hill, etc.) than any other team in the country, except maybe Oklahoma, and all of those guys are back this season. On top of that, because those guys missed so much time, all their backups got valuable game time experience, which is always a good thing.
Weaknesses
- RB – NC State’s top two leading rushers graduated, so there is no proven back to carry load.
- D-Line – All four starters from last year’s team graduated, so this year, the team will be relying on a lot of unproven talent to bolster the defensive line.
- Defense In General – The defense ranked 99th nationally in scoring defense and 106th in pass defense last year, and now have an entirely new defensive line and a secondary composed of nothing but sophomores and freshman. I guess the good news is that their linebackers are pretty good?
Hilariously Early Pre-Season Prediction
Chili’s Pick – I think it’s probably easy to sell State short a little bit given their recent performance, but Tom O’Brien’s team has been wracked by an abnormally high number of season ending injuries. Yeah, I am just kidding. I mean, they have been injured, but it wouldn’t matter because they still would be mediocre at best. Clemson will score more points than the Wolfpack before time expires.
Win (5-3)
Sambo’s Pick – I enjoy myself a good movie now and again, but did anybody else feel like this summer’s selection of movies sucked? I saw Iron Man 2 and Inception, and nothing else because the rest of the movies looked like crap……kind of like NC State.
Win (7-1)


1AParker
on Aug 18, 2010 at 6:47 am:
Sick Burn Sambo Sick Burn….
2James C.
on Aug 18, 2010 at 9:52 am:
So I guess no one refers to it as the Textile Bowl anymore do they?
3mullet
on Aug 18, 2010 at 11:54 am:
Not since most textile jobs have gone overseas.
4AParker
on Aug 18, 2010 at 12:00 pm:
@2, I have, but I grow up a State fan an then converted when State made a dumb choice of telling me I couldn’t get in. Now I sell my State basketball and football tickets off to buy tickets at Clemson.
5true
on Aug 18, 2010 at 12:28 pm:
I had to endure 2 1/2 years at State College as a graduate student. Without question the worst 2 1/2 years of my life. Perhaps its time we start a petition to give Raleigh back to the British…
6The Human Cow
on Aug 18, 2010 at 1:01 pm:
I was looking at going to NCSU for my undergrad, but the entire campus felt like it was stuck in the 80s, complete with a promo video shown on a CRT TV wheeled out on a cart connected to a VCR. In 2004.
7flacct
on Aug 18, 2010 at 1:43 pm:
On with the state bashing, my old roomate graduated from state and was a total fucking bitch. She was pretty cute though, but didn’t have sex with me, making that part a wash.
8true
on Aug 18, 2010 at 2:15 pm:
Hey guys, hey guys, hey guys! Did you know Phillip Rivers is married? And that he has a kid?
9AParker
on Aug 18, 2010 at 3:22 pm:
@8, Lee?
10CUin1993
on Aug 18, 2010 at 4:19 pm:
@7 – That does not make it a wash. If she had sex with you, THAT would make it a wash.
11Willy Mac
on Aug 18, 2010 at 4:27 pm:
@10 – Dude, pussy is pussy. Fuck collegiate alliances when it comes down to getting laid.
12Judge Jeff Davis
on Aug 18, 2010 at 7:34 pm:
I disagree – pussy is not pussy. Eva Mendes is not the same as Kathy Bates.
I agree though that collegiate alliances do not matter when it comes to chasing tail.
13BuckTN
on Aug 19, 2010 at 6:14 am:
If you can get it up (without Cialis) for Kathy Bates, i say its the same
14Riggs
on Aug 19, 2010 at 6:43 am:
@11-13, please stop. I am a very visual thinker . . . I picture everything without any choice in the matter.
15Willy Mac
on Aug 19, 2010 at 7:06 am:
Seriously though, if it’s the best blowjob you’d ever get in your entire life, you’re telling me you wouldn’t let a fatty bob on the shmeckel?
You should’ve also thought about that before you sprung Sir Patrick Willis on us.
16Riggs
on Aug 19, 2010 at 7:42 am:
@15 No comment on your fist point . . . and don’t act like you haven’t stared at Sir Patrick Will wishing to spend just one day in his shoes. Look at him. There’s a man with a story to tell.
17Willy Mac
on Aug 19, 2010 at 8:10 am:
@16 – No comment might as well be an admission of guilt here, friend.
Also, I never said I didn’t want to be the man, his face just makes me want to scream.
18CUin1993
on Aug 19, 2010 at 3:54 pm:
Willy Mac pussy is not pussy but head is head. You are right about not letting your fanhood get in the way of your manhood.
As long as I didn’t have to look at Kathy Bates gag on my schlong, it might be cool. How many guys can say they had an Academy Award winning actress blow them?
19Judge Jeff Davis
on Aug 19, 2010 at 9:31 pm:
JUDI DENCH GIVES MAD HEAD