1979 NC State Wolfpack football team

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1979 NC State Wolfpack football
ACC champion
ConferenceAtlantic Coast Conference
1979 record7–4 (5–1 ACC)
Head coach
  • Bo Rein (4th season)
Home stadiumCarter–Finley Stadium
(capacity: 47,000)
Seasons
← 1978
1980 →
1979 Atlantic Coast Conference football standings
  • v
  • t
 Conf Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
NC State $ 5 – 1 – 0 7 – 4 – 0
Clemson 4 – 2 – 0 8 – 4 – 0
Maryland 4 – 2 – 0 7 – 4 – 0
Wake Forest 3 – 2 – 0 8 – 4 – 0
No. 15 North Carolina 3 – 3 – 0 8 – 3 – 1
Virginia 1 – 4 – 0 6 – 5 – 0
Duke 0 – 6 – 0 2 – 8 – 1
  • $ – Conference champion
Rankings from AP Poll

The 1979 NC State Wolfpack football team represented the North Carolina State Wolfpack during the 1979 NCAA Division I-A football season. The team's head coach was Bo Rein. NC State has been a member of the Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) since the league's inception in 1953. The Wolfpack played its home games in 1979 at Carter–Finley Stadium in Raleigh, North Carolina, which has been NC State football's home stadium since 1966. NC State won the 1979 ACC Championship with a record of 5–1 in conference play. Despite the conference championship, the Wolfpack did not receive a bowl invitation, while two teams they defeated, Clemson and Wake Forest, did. As of 2020, the 1979 NC State team is the most recent bowl-eligible Power Five conference champion to not receive an invitation.

Rein accepted the head coaching position at LSU on November 30, 1979. He never coached a game in Baton Rouge, perishing January 10, 1980 when the private aircraft he was traveling in flew well off course and crashed into the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Virginia.

Schedule[]

DateTimeOpponentRankSiteTVResultAttendanceSource
September 8East Carolina*
W 34–2053,400[1]
September 15VirginiaNo. 19
  • Carter–Finley Stadium
  • Raleigh, NC
W 31–2745,800
September 22at West Virginia*No. 19
W 38–1426,298
September 29Wake ForestNo. 16
  • Carter–Finley Stadium
  • Raleigh, NC (rivalry)
W 17–1444,800
October 6at Auburn*No. 14
L 31–4451,146
October 13MarylandNo. 17
  • Carter–Finley Stadium
  • Raleigh, NC
W 7–0
October 204:00 p.m.No. 19 North CarolinaNo. 15
  • Carter–Finley Stadium
  • Raleigh, NC (rivalry)
ABCL 21–3554,200
October 27at Clemson
  • Memorial Stadium
  • Clemson, SC (rivalry)
W 16–1361,722
November 3at South Carolina*
L 28–3156,409
November 10Penn State*
  • Carter–Finley Stadium
  • Raleigh, NC
L 7–951,200
November 17at Duke
  • Wallace Wade Stadium
  • Durham, NC
W 28–724,100
  • *Non-conference game
  • Rankings from AP Poll released prior to the game

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Roster[]

1979 NC State Wolfpack football team roster
Players Coaches
Offense
Pos. # Name Class
TE 80 Lin Dawson So
T 76 Chris Dieterich Sr
C 51 Jim Ritcher Sr
Defense
Pos. # Name Class
Special teams
Pos. # Name Class
Head coach
  • Bo Rein
Coordinators/assistant coaches
Legend
  • (C) Team captain
  • (S) Suspended
  • (I) Ineligible
  • Injured Injured
  • Redshirt Redshirt

References[]

  1. ^ "Wolfpack comeback topples ECU". The News and Observer. September 9, 1979. Retrieved March 4, 2021 – via Newspapers.com.
  2. ^ "1979 North Carolina State Wolfpack Schedule and Results | College Football at Sports-Reference.com". sports-reference.com. Retrieved October 9, 2017.
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