NC State has a chance of doing something pretty remarkable in the 2024 calendar year. Women’s Final Four, Men’s Final Four, Baseball CWS, the football team finished in the top-25 this past year … two schools have ever done that? But for the Calendar year of 2024, so building off that success into this fall if their football team can get to an ACC title game, and a spot into an expanded CFP? What other school can say that?! 

So much of the perception of athletic departments is built around if their football team is good, despite other sports being great.