1979 NC State Wolfpack football team
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 2018, the 1979 North Carolina State team is the most recent bowl-eligible Power Five conference champion to not receive an invitation.
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ACC champion | |
| Conference | Atlantic Coast Conference |
| 1979 record | 7–4 (5–1 ACC) |
| Head coach | Bo Rein (4th season) |
| Home stadium | Carter–Finley Stadium (Capacity: 47,000) |
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| 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 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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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. Ironically, the doomed plane flew over Raleigh and Carter-Finley Stadium shortly before crashing.
Schedule
| Date | Opponent | Rank | Site | Result |
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| September 8 | East Carolina* | W 34–20 | ||
| September 15 | Virginia | No. 19 |
| W 31–27 |
| September 22 | at West Virginia* | No. 19 | W 38–14 | |
| September 29 | Wake Forest | No. 16 |
| W 17–14 |
| October 6 | at Auburn* | No. 14 |
| L 31–44 |
| October 13 | Maryland | No. 17 |
| W 7–0 |
| October 20 | No. 19 North Carolina | No. 15 |
| L 21–35 |
| October 27 | at Clemson |
| W 16–13 | |
| November 3 | at South Carolina* |
| L 28–31 | |
| November 10 | Penn State* |
| L 7–9 | |
| November 17 | at Duke | W 28–7 | ||
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References
- "1979 North Carolina State Wolfpack Schedule and Results | College Football at Sports-Reference.com". sports-reference.com. Retrieved 2017-10-09.