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NC State

Wolfpack · ACC

Head coach Dave Doeren

Season Projection · 2026 W0

10,000 sims
6.8
Expected wins
7-5
Proj record
4 to 10
Win range (90%)
#55 (30–82)
Final rank (90%)
0%
Make playoff
2%
Win conference

Path to Glory

Tap a win or a loss on each pivotal game to see how the playoff probability shifts. Leave any game unset to average across both outcomes.

Make the playoff

0%

Baseline projection.

  • at Virginia
    Away · Aug 29
  • at Florida State
    Away · Nov 21
  • vs Louisville
    Home · Oct 3
  • vs Wake Forest
    Home · Oct 10
  • vs Duke
    Home · Nov 7

Pivotal games are the 5 with the largest playoff-probability swing, ranked by the model. Math: chained Bayesian log-odds update from the conditional simulation set; gets the directionally right answer but won't perfectly capture cross-game correlations until the full Monte Carlo pipeline lands.

Returning production · 2025

60 PCI
  • Quarterback 67% (4/6 players)
  • Offensive line 57% (12/21 players)
  • Skill (RB/WR/TE) 52% (16/31 players)
  • Front 7 (DL/LB) 58% (19/33 players)
  • Secondary 54% (13/24 players)
  • Special teams 88% (7/8 players)

PCI weights returning production by position group (QB/OL heaviest). 70%+ is healthy continuity; 45-70% is a normal rebuild; below 45% is a meaningful turnover.

Situational efficiency · 2025

FBS percentile rank
  • 3rd-down conversion 39.4% 66th — average
  • Red-zone TD rate 23.1% 97th — elite
  • 4th-down aggression 42.3% 75th — strong
  • Late & close 5.0 yds/play 50th — average

Percentile is across all FBS teams with play-by-play data for the season. "Late & close" is yards per play in Q4+ with a one-score margin — a proxy for clutch offensive performance.

Schedule

Full 2026 slate. Tap a row for the matchup breakdown.

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More coming

Per-team pages get the full treatment in Phase 3: current rating, season projection histogram, schedule with win probabilities, and live overlays on Pylon stream days. For now, this page exists so stories and news have a permanent home as content rolls in.