10-23-2026, 10:20 AM
(10-22-2026, 07:19 AM)TriangleTree Wrote:(10-21-2026, 08:16 PM)KartyFan Wrote: The Elon shower didn’t white wash off the stink of Wake and ND for me. Hoping I’m wrong and we take them down, and I’ll be there to see it.
This will be a good calibration game for us. What the season suggests so far:
We are not competitive against top 10 teams, at home or away
We are not competitive against quality teams 3 time zones away
We are competitive and can win at home against struggling Power 4 or mediocre FBS teams, especially if they are a few time zones away
We can be dominant against FCS teams
This game will go a long way in determining whether we're at the very bottom of the Power 4 or if we're just bottom 3rd.
Odds suggest that it's the former, but really hope we can recalibrate up after Friday.
I would think Tavita and Co. are looking at this game as a major opportunity to prove there's forward progress. I suspect NC State is in a similar boat, and I'm guessing they will look at it the same way.
I like this way of thinking of this game and this season to date.
Also while of course I want a win tonight, at a more basic level, looking to see us play good football.
How about for a whole game?
We played good football during parts, but not all, of our win games.
A quarter+ of Hawaii game was not really good.
First half of Elon was debatable whether good or not, D pretty good, the O not quite so much.
And I would say we even played a piece of good football for part of Miami blowout, in that our passing game (minus some drops) was otherwise pretty good.
As with GaTech and Hawaii games, gonna take playing good football for most of this game tonight to gain a win I think.