Although it is little consolation after the events in Winston-Salem last night, NC State maintained its ranking in the AP poll. The Wolfpack came in at #25 in the latest poll, dropping four spots. So they’ll keep their spot on the default page of everyone’s sports app when checking CFB scores. That’s something, I guess.
The AP poll means less now with the CFP poll taking precedence. What matters less is the defunct Coach’s poll, where NC State dropped five spots to #24. Everything still stings today, so it’s hard to care about the polls when we just wanted the win, but it goes on some stat somewhere of the school having a continuous ranking for some amount of weeks, whatever that number is now.