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[QUOTE="sufandu, post: 4772789, member: 874"]
Well, the conference was solid but not great that year, since everyone had at least 3 losses and nobody finished ranked higher than 20. NC State hadn't been all that great leading up to that game with only 3 wins in '95 and '96 and 6 in '97. Michigan and Tennessee were big time but if you want to be great to have to play other great teams. We weren't a rebuilding program at that point. For the previous 10 years we had one of the best records in the country. If not for screw job refs, we beat Tennessee and we had no business losing to NC State. We were better than them. We had beaten WVU the previous three years but couldn't get the fourth. The schedule was fine for a team that was expected to be really good and had an elite talent at QB with a bunch of other future high draft picks on the roster.

To answer your 'for what' question. Imagine how excited the fanbase and community would've been and how much espn would've been all over us had SEC refs not screwed us and then we blew out Michigan like we did. We would've been a top 5 team.
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