Rivalry Week Q&A with Backing the Pack

Posted Nov 27, 2015
It's not Thanksgiving week until the crazy relatives show up at the house for dinner, and in that vein we're doing a Q&A with our friend Will Thompson from the NC State blog Backing the Pack. If I'm Larry Fedora, what do I have to do to stop the Wolfpack? "The biggest thing is to keep State's offense off the field and to score a lot early." (Tar Heel Blog)

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