NC State football countdown to kickoff: 64
The NC State football season opener for 2022 is at East Carolina on Sept. 3 — or 64 days away from Friday. The Wolfpacker continues its countdown for the season with a note about the number 64.
64: Significant moments involving the number 64 in NC State football history
• One of the most players on this year’s team wears No. 64. Redshirt senior guard Chandler Zavala was denied his request for an extra season of eligibility by the NCAA, but after NC State acquired legal counsel, the Wolfpack was able to put together a winning appeal.
“You get a guy back that’s experienced that we think is really talented if he’s healthy,” head coach Dave Doeren said in an interview with The Wolfpacker. “It’s a game changer if he can play. Adds depth and experience to a position that already has some good depth and experience.”
Zavala started the first five games last season at left guard before being sidelined with an injury. The former Division II All-American was named ACC Offensive Lineman of the Week once and he also had the second highest grade of OL from Pro Football Focus (PFF) for NC State in 2021.
• During Earle Edwards’ career as NC State football head coach, the Wolfpack won five ACC conference titles. Three of those came in consecutive years, from 1963-65. The only one of those three, however, that NC State won outright, came in 1964.
That team lost all three non-conference games they played — including a 21-0 shutout loss at No. 3 Alabama coached by Bear Bryant. NC State was additionally defeated on the road by future ACC rivals Florida State and Virginia Tech.
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However, within the ACC, NC State went 5-2 that season, beginning the year with three straight wins, including topping UNC and Maryland by identical 14-13 scores. A lopsided road loss at Duke was answered by a win at Virginia and a 17-14 home triumph over South Carolina on Halloween in what proved to be the difference in the league standings.
• The second most pass attempts in a game in NC State history was 64. That’s how many passes that Ryan Finley threw in the 2017 season opener against South Carolina in Charlotte. Finley completed a school-record 45 of those pass attempts for 415 yards, which was the 12th most in one contest.
Coincidentally, the most pass attempts ever attempted in a game against NC State is also 64, done twice — Virginia in 2020 and Texas Tech in 2003.
• During his career at NC State, kicker Damon Hartman made exactly 64.0 percent of his field goal attempts, 48 of 75. However, when it mattered most, Hartman delivered — a 56-yarder to beat archrival North Carolina in 1990.
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