With Liberty in the Top 25 and facing NC State from this ACC this week, there’s a lot of coverage for this week’s game, including more projections than the FBS newbies Liberty normally receives. #21 Liberty (8-0) is right around a 2.5 point underdog against the Wolfpack (5-3). Here’s a look around the nation at other predictions.

FROM THOSE WHO COVER THE TEAMS

LIBERTY

ASOR

Brett Jones: Liberty 40, NC State 35
Jacob Bleymaier: Liberty 35, NC State 31
Jon Manson: Liberty 35, NC State 30

News & Advance: Liberty 38, NC State 35

NC STATE

Backing The Pack

AlecLower: NC State 38, Liberty 35
WROncsu: NC State 41, Liberty 34
TheRealEssad: NC State 44, Liberty 37
Steve: NC State 31, Liberty 27
Pirate Wolf: NC State 37, Liberty 31
no23sports: NC State 45, Liberty 42
Why is this so hard?: NC State 41, Liberty 35
JEOHanks2: NC State 34, Liberty 28

The Wolfpacker

Matt Carter: NC State 38, Liberty 35
Justin H. Williams: NC State 41, Liberty 31

COLLEGE GAMEDAY

Trae Young: Liberty
Desmond Howard: Liberty
David Pollack: Liberty
Lee Corso: NC State
Kirk Herbstreit: NC State

OTHERS

Ralph Russo, Associated Press – Liberty 28, NC State 24

Brad Cunningham, Action Network – Picked Liberty against a spread of LU +3.5

Scott Whittum, Athlon Sports – NC State 41, Liberty 33

Athlon Sports – 2 picked Liberty, 1 picked NC State

Kerry Miller, Bleacher Report – Liberty 31, NC State 28

Pete Fiutak, College Football News – NC State 38, Liberty 34

Bill Connelly’s SP+, ESPN – Liberty 33, NC State 28

NCAAF Nation – NC State 38, Liberty 34

Richmond Times Dispatch
Aaron McFarling: Liberty 35, NC State 30
Bennett Conlin: NC State 38, Liberty 27
Mike Barber: NC State 38, Liberty 35
David Teel: NC State 24, Liberty 23

Andrew Tineo, Saturday Blitz – Liberty 35, NC State 31

Sports Chat Place – NC State (no score)

Bill Bender, Sporting News – Liberty 34, NC State 31

AJ Black, Sports Illustrated – Liberty (no score)

StatSalt – Liberty

Tar Heel Blog – 9 picked Liberty, 4 picked NC State (no scores)

Skip Snow, USA Today – NC State 28, Liberty 24

Winners and Whiners – Picked Liberty against a spread of LU +3.5

Jeff Mezydlo, Yardbarker – Picked Liberty against a spread of LU +3.5

AVERAGE PICK FROM ALL SOURCES: NC STATE 34.4, LIBERTY 33.3
PICKS FOR NC STATE: 25
PICKS FOR LIBERTY: 29