Breaking Down NC State’s Bowl Possibilities

NC State’s Football team has finished the regular season 8-4, with a 6-2 record in ACC play, and now they get to play the waiting game…waiting to see what bowl game they land in.

The News & Observer’s Joe Giglio has been extensively breaking down the likeliehod of which bowl each ACC team will go to.

Hey, Joe, how does Notre Dame’s loss affect the ACC bowl order? .. https://t.co/IkoCri43cc pic.twitter.com/4L3EU0fSYZ

— Joe Giglio (@jwgiglio) November 26, 2017

NC State is in play for both the second Orlando spot or Jacksonville but the odds, right now, are on a trip to El Paso to face Oregon, Arizona or Arizona State

— Joe Giglio (@jwgiglio) November 26, 2017

There’s also still a scenario for State to end up in Charlotte (hence the use of pencil for Wake in scenario #2)

— Joe Giglio (@jwgiglio) November 26, 2017

To sum it up, Giglio thinks that Camping World in Orlando is an option, along with TaxSlayer in Jacksonville, but thinks the Sun Bowl in El Paso against Oregon, Arizona or Arizona St is the most likely scenario. Giglio goes into great detail in this piece on how the ACC Bowl’s work, and how Notre Dame’s loss through a kink in things.

CBSSports currently projects NC State to go to the PinStripe Bowl in Yankee Stadium against Iowa on December 27th.

SportsIllustrated currently projects NC State to go to the TaxSlayer Bowl against LSU in Jacksonville, Florida, On December 30th.

ESPN’s Kyle Bonagura agreed with CBSSports, and thinks that NC State will go to the PinStripe Bowl, but he thinks they will face Purdue. ESPN’s David Hale agrees with SI, and thinks NC State will play in the TaxSlayer Bowl, but he thinks they will play Missouri.

As you can see, this is only slightly complicated. Now we wait.