When I think about the best and worst of NC State football in this century it’s difficult for me to come up with a more heartbreaking season than 2003, which was Philip Rivers’ senior year. Rivers was brilliant and at the very least should have been invited to the Heisman ceremonies that year, but the team finished 7-5.
You can see all of the good and the bad in this 47-34 win over North Carolina in Raleigh; Rivers was almost always great, and special teams made plays, but the team was horribly sloppy, and it needed a lot of points.