 Despite the slow start, his first Wolfpack squad went into the season finale with a bowl bid on the line.The 2008 season will go down as one of the best of O'Brien's tenure, as the Wolfpack became the first in Atlantic Coast Conference history to start the season 0–4 in league play and finish 4–0, with an overall record of 6–7.The bid to the Papajohns.com Bowl marked the ninth bowl invitation in the past 10 years for O'Brien.