No. 24 NC State opens against FCS foe Western Carolina with eye on looming Tennessee matchup

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No. 24 NC State opens against FCS foe Western Carolina with eye on looming Tennessee matchup
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No. 24 N.C. State opens the season Thursday against Western Carolina of the Championship Subdivision. That game will mark coach Dave Doeren's first look at a reconfigured depth chart bolstered through the transfer portal. That also comes with a looming date against No. 15 Tennessee following in Week 2.

FILE - North Carolina State head coach Dave Doeren claps for his team during an NCAA college football game against Miami in Raleigh, N.C., Nov. 4, 2023. RALEIGH, N.C. — N.C. State found plenty of offseason help in the transfer portal. Coach Dave Doeren is set to get his first look at how those pieces fit together and what must improve before a looming marquee matchup.

“I hope to learn a lot,” Doeren said. “I think there’s going to be really good things that come out of the game that we didn’t expect and there’s going to be things we’ve got to fix.” “I think it’s always good for our kids to see if we can play at that level and how well compete against a really good football team,” Catamounts coach Kerwin Bell said, adding: ‘We’re going to go up there and give it our best shot and see what happens.”N.C. State is picked to finish fourth in the expanded 17-team ACC after winning 34 games over the previous four seasons, and can chase only the program’s second 10-win season . Western Carolina is picked third in the nine-team Southern Conference.

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