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NC State football announces four game times

MattCarterby:Matt Carter•05/26/22•

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The NC State football season will start with a pair of noon-hour kickoffs before a primetime game at home in week three. The Wolfpack also will have a nationally-televised Thursday evening home ACC showdown with Virginia Tech and has an idea of when it will end the regular season against archrival North Carolina.

That contest will also be the fourth already announced game to be televised on either ESPN, ESPN2 or ABC.

NC State football opens the season on the road at East Carolina in Greenville, N.C., for a noon kickoff that will be on broadcast nationally on ESPN. The last time the Wolfpack opened the season at East Carolina was 1983, head coach Tom Reed’s first game at NC State and a 22-16 loss to the Pirates. NC State is just 1-4 all-time in Greenville, but leads the overall series 18-14.

The last two times the teams have met Pack outscored the Pirates by a collective score of 92-9, including 58-3 in the 2018 regular season finale.

Week two will be the home opener for NC State football at Carter-Finley Stadium, where the Pack is currently enjoying a 10-game winning streak. Charleston Southern will be the first opponent to visit the venue this season, and kickoff will be 12:30 on RSN.

NC State’s marquee non-conference showdown in the regular season is Texas Tech, who comes to Raleigh Sept. 17. That game will be a primetime contest on ESPN2 with a 7 p.m. kick. The last two scheduled home games for NC State against Power Five opponents were both canceled — Mississippi State in 2020 by COVID-19 and West Virginia in 2018 by Hurricane Florence.

The bye week for NC State football is Oct. 22, and coming out of the break the Pack will host a Thursday night contest against Virginia Tech. That will be another nationally televised contest on ESPN, this time for a 7:30 p.m. kickoff.

The Friday, Nov. 25 contest a day after Thanksgiving at North Carolina in Chapel Hill will be an afternoon game, either at noon, 1 p.m. or 3:30 and nationally televised on either ABC or ESPN.

NC State Football Has High Expectations

Athlon Sports’ annual preseason magazine released its top 25 this week and had NC State at No. 12. That is the latest example of the hype that the Wolfpack is likely to get throughout the summer and leading into the fall.

Both USA Today and ESPN have NC State ranked in their way-too-early top 10s that were updated after the spring. The Ahtletic had the Pack top 10 in its edition released in the immediate aftermath of the College Football Playoffs.

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