College Football News takes NC State to beat the spread, 34-13.

[Palatine]

They give us a chance to be close in the first quarter.

https://collegefootballnews.com/cfn/nc-state-vs-uconn-prediction-game-preview

 

[NowInStorrs]

The good news is that college football news' opinion has absolutely zero impact on the actual game. Go Huskies.

 

[CTFAN4LIFE]

Well, they'll be wrong then.

 

[BugsyCT]

This displeases me. We shall see what happens. I expect UConn to be fired up and ready to play.

 

[Husky68]

Keep wondering why talking heads are so sure NCS is way better than UConn. Looked up the UVA QB transfer and last year was ok with 220 yards passing per game. Way better than ZT but still just ok. Previous year averaged over 400 yards passing per game. Don't know what happened but seems like NCS OC was with the transfer QB Armstrong at UVA for the 2021 season so like UConn OC being reunited with previous school QB. To say the least a much better resume than Fagnano, but we will see.

It seems like the talking heads are seeing NCS at about 35 points seems a bit high but not for supposedly a new high powered offense, what seems more off is they don't think UConn can get to even 14 points. NCS was # 11 in defense points scored against last year at just under 20 PPG (UConn was about 26 PPG) so given the score last year not surprising they don't see UConn scoring much. NCS 2022 defense did give up 21 points to the BCU team that UConn held to 3 points.

The writeups for the NCS defense sounds like ACC champ material. College football news has them at preseason #30 so UConn winning the opener will "get 'em talkin'".

 

[zmart]

On the Bovada betting site the game started with NC St. giving 16 points. It is now down to 14.
People are betting UConn.

 

[Nostical]

On the Bovada betting site the game started with NC St. giving 16 points. It is now down to 14.
People are betting UConn.

I got +16.5 on July 17th

 

[giddyup]

The Rent has the unique ability to get under an opponent’s skin when things are going our way. If we score first NCState is in for a long day.

 

[mymustang]

Heritage gave me 16 in early July. Down to 15 now. The bad thing is they opened the win total at 5 now it is down to 4.5.

 

[Bongo Fury]

Keep wondering why talking heads are so sure NCS is way better than UConn. Looked up the UVA QB transfer and last year was ok with 220 yards passing per game. Way better than ZT but still just ok. Previous year averaged over 400 yards passing per game. Don't know what happened but seems like NCS OC was with the transfer QB Armstrong at UVA for the 2021 season so like UConn OC being reunited with previous school QB. To say the least a much better resume than Fagnano, but we will see.

It seems like the talking heads are seeing NCS at about 35 points seems a bit high but not for supposedly a new high powered offense, what seems more off is they don't think UConn can get to even 14 points. NCS was # 11 in defense points scored against last year at just under 20 PPG (UConn was about 26 PPG) so given the score last year not surprising they don't see UConn scoring much. NCS 2022 defense did give up 21 points to the BCU team that UConn held to 3 points.

The writeups for the NCS defense sounds like ACC champ material. College football news has them at preseason #30 so UConn winning the opener will "get 'em talkin'".

Generally speaking NCS like other power conference teams will have better players. It depends on how motivated they are. Cuse brought it last year. BC and Liberty did not.

 

[BlueandOG]

We're gonna eat lighting and crap thunder!

 

[CL82]

We're gonna eat lighting and crap thunder!

 

[Palatine]

Generally speaking NCS like other power conference teams will have better players. It depends on how motivated they are. Cuse brought it last year. BC and Liberty did not.

Turner threw for 92 yards against Cuse. Tough to do anything when the offense can't pass.

 

[NE Football]

This is just pure hype for an annually overrated NC St team. They have never had a very successful program. All hat and no cattle type of program. They will look to fire their HC after we beat them.

 

[Bongo Fury]

Turner threw for 92 yards against Cuse. Tough to do anything when the offense can't pass.

And UConn couldn’t stop them. Definitely a game to play keep away if they could’ve.

 

[LIUCHusky]

On the Bovada betting site the game started with NC St. giving 16 points. It is now down to 14.
People are betting UConn.

Anyone know the over/under for UConn season wins at either Ballys (Lincoln, RI) or MGM Springfield?

 

[seeya27]

I did an NCS Tuffy Talk podcast with Pete Calin this week. I'll say this: the hosts were exceedingly respectful of UConn, knowledgeable about most everything UConn, and weren't taking the game lightly by any means.

They both predicted multi-TD wins, but with good rationale.

My sense is they believed the Pack had talent advantages, but they respected our guys. They'll be there and just assumed we would be honoring our MBB champions to fire up the crowd.

Good guys...

 

[mymustang]

Anyone know the over/under for UConn season wins at either Ballys (Lincoln, RI) or MGM Springfield?

Most sportsbooks have it at 5 wins at -100 or 4.5 wins at -165. The 4.5 has a 68.8 chance of hitting

 

[huskymedic]

NCState 35-9

 

[Palatine]

A quick peek back. We ran for 121 yards and passed for 39, all told, 160 yards total offense.

They gained 496 yards against us, 323 in the air and 183 on the ground. Plus our lack of offense put the defense in poor situations the score got out of control . They ran 79 plays with over 35 minutes of possession.

I think we are better than last year and they are marginally weaker. I think it is realistic to believe we will perform better on both sides of the ball. If we do good things will happen.

 

[CTBasketball]

Idiots make these spreads. Idiots!