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#5 Men’s Soccer Faces Florida Atlantic Saturday Night
9/12/2025 2:15:00 PM | Men's Soccer
RALEIGH – Fifth-ranked NC State men's soccer nears the end of its home stretch by hosting Florida Atlantic in non-conference action at Dail Soccer Stadium in Raleigh on Saturday at 6 p.m.
The match will be streamed live here on ACC Network Extra with commentary by Evan Budrovich and Brad Sweeney, while live stats will be available on StatBroadcast here.
A Win on Saturday Would…
• Be the 565th win in program history (564-491-117)
• Be the 247th win in Hubbard's head coaching career (246- 57-43)
• Be Hubbard's 15th victory at NC State (14-5-6)
• Be the fourth win over Florida Atlantic (3-0)
Series History
• Saturday's meeting marks just the fourth contest between the NC State Wolfpack and Florida Atlantic Owls.
• The Wolfpack last met with the Owls in 2017 in Raleigh, which resulted in a 3-2 victory.
• The two previous contests between the two were in 2008 and 2010, also both in Raleigh.
Quick Notes
• The Wolfpack started the season ranked at No. 14 in the preseason United Soccer Coaches poll, where it finished last season. After just week one of the regular season, the squad landed at eighth in the country, the last time the program was ranked that high was in September of 2018.
• Through two weeks of competition, the Pack was boosted to the No. 5 spot, marking the program's highest-ever ranking in the United Soccer Coaches poll (which began in 1996).
• NC State was picked to finish eighth in a competitive Atlantic Coast Conference that features four of the nation's preseason top 10 teams according to the United Soccer Coaches Poll.
• A win over Queens to open the season on Thursday moved the team's season-opening record under Marc Hubbard to 2-0.
• A crowd of 5,083 fans at the game vs. North Carolina on Friday, Sept. 5 set a new Dail Soccer Stadium attendance record.
Across the ACC
• NC State is one of two ACC schools (other being Duke) to feature at least four players on the TopDrawerSoccer Preseason Top-100 Players to Watch List.
• The ACC holds eight teams ranked nationally in the top-25 (No. 2 Clemson, No. 4 Wake Forest, No. 5 NC State, No. 6 Louisville, No. 8 Stanford, No. 14 Virginia Tech, No. 19 Duke, and No. 21 North Carolina).
• NC State is one of two ACC schools to not yet concede a goal.
Across the NCAA
• Donavan Phillip is second in the NCAA for shots on goal per game with an average of 2.80.
• The team is fifth in the country in goal differential and third in shots on goal per game with a 9.20 average.
• NC State is one of seven schools to not yet concede a goal.
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