1986 Peach Bowl several years, then reentered school and graduated from Virginia Tech in 1994 with a degree. Virginia Tech would go on to join the Atlantic Coast Conference, which NC State was a member of, in 2004. The ACC has had an automatic tie-in with the Peach Bowl (later renamed the Chick-Fil-A Bowl) every year since the 1992 Peach Bowl. 1986 Peach Bowl The 1986 Peach Bowl was a post-season American college football bowl game at Fulton County Stadium in Atlanta, Georgia between the Virginia Tech Hokies and the North Carolina State Wolfpack from on December 31, 1986. The game was the
North Carolina State University in "Brown v. Board of Education" (1954) that segregated public education was unconstitutional, North Carolina State College enrolled its first African-American undergraduates, Ed Carson, Manuel Crockett, Irwin Holmes, and Walter Holmes. In 1962, State College officials desired to change the institution's name to North Carolina State University. Consolidated university administrators approved a change to the University of North Carolina at Raleigh, frustrating many student and alumni who protested the change with letter writing campaigns. In 1963, State College officially became North Carolina State of the University of North Carolina. Students, faculty, and alumni continued to express dissatisfaction with this name,