N&O: NC State is Close to Opening the 2024 Football Season Against Tennessee

According to Luke DeCock of the News & Observer, NC State is close to an agreement to open the 2024 College Football season against Tennessee.

N.C. State is close to an agreement to open the 2024 football season against Tennessee at Charlotte’s Bank of America stadium, multiple sources close to the negotiations told The News & Observer.

N.C. State is scheduled to host Western Carolina on August 31, 2024. The Wolfpack’s other nonconference games are against Louisiana Tech and at South Florida. Tennessee currently has that date open in 2024.

The game would replace Brigham Young on the Wolfpack’s nonconference schedule. N.C. State was scheduled to host BYU in 2024 and travel there in 2030, but that series was canceled over the summer with BYU joining the Big 12 next fall. (N&O)

Tennessee currently is ranked 3rd in the AP Poll.

NC State has played Tennessee 3 times, winning the first game of the series back in 1893.