The Waiting Game

With six wins, N.C. State is eligible to play in a bowl game for the first time in three seasons. State is technically eligible for any of the ACC’s bowl slots except the Orange Bowl or an at-large slot in a non-ACC affiliated bowl.

Charlotte, with the Meineke Car Care Bowl on Dec. 27, and Washington, with the inaugural EagleBank Bowl on Dec. 20, are prime targets for State’s postseason.

In other conference news…

The ACC won the season-ending ACC/SEC Challenge 3-1.

Go ahead and look it up. Other than Florida waxing Florida State (and Florida is waxing everyone at this point), it was a good day for the conference.

(That adds to a 3-3 record against the SEC earlier in the year, which is certainly solid).

When the rankings come out later today, the ACC should have its first top-15 team since the preseason (Georgia Tech), and Boston College might even join the Yellow Jackets there.

Oh, and there’s 10 bowl-eligible teams, and the conference has the enviable task of trying to find a postseason home for all of the programs.

NFL Week 11 Amazing Jets WR Jerricho Cotchery Catch

Frickin amazing catch. Dare I say, ‘Cotchdiculous’.

Rivals ranks NCSU class of 2009 at #13

From Rivals.com:

13. N.C. State
2009 commits (National rank)
PG Lorenzo Brown (43)
PF Richard Howell (51)
SG Scott Wood (126)

The Wolfpack love the I-85 pipeline down to Atlanta. After securing J.J. Hickson two years ago, Sidney Lowe and staff have mined Georgia hard for talent. The results have been positive in 2009 with Brown and Howell. Both should help from Day One. A mini Indiana connection is also growing. Last year, the team landed Julius Mays. This year, Wood is the latest Hoosier State player to head south to Raleigh.