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So joining me now, Jonas Pope the Fourth covers the Wolfpack for the Raleigh News and Observer.

We've had them on the podcast before.

Really great information last time.

Now you've seen a game, just your initial impressions of North Carolina State and what you saw against South Florida.

First of all, thank you for having me on. Secondly, what I saw against South Florida. First of all, thank you for having me on.

Secondly, what I saw against South Florida was a team that came out and just dominated

from the end to end.

And I think while a lot of people expect the state to win that game, something they've done

in the past is they haven't been able to really keep their foot on the neck of their opponents and really control the game for four quarter.

They've had instances where they would start out hot and let teams, even inferior opponents, like sneak back in the game late or even make it look a lot closer than it was.

But this team really kept the pressure on, never took their flood to gas.

South Florida had a chance to score late, they were determined to get a shutout.

So they shut them out from the four-yard line.

So that just showed me a lot about the focus and the determination of this, of this 2021 team.

A lot of balance offensively for North Carolina State in this game, 232 yards passing, 293 yards rushing.

Leary was 17 of 26,

average 8 yards per carry.

It feels like offensively,

it couldn't have gone better for North Carolina State.

Is that a function of how well they played and how well they execute it?

Or was it a function more of what South Florida wasn't able to do?

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