{"id":1824850,"date":"2023-11-01T00:24:34","date_gmt":"2023-11-01T04:24:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=1824850"},"modified":"2023-11-01T00:24:34","modified_gmt":"2023-11-01T04:24:34","slug":"hilariously-wral-picks-nc-central-as-the-top-football-team-in-the-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=1824850","title":{"rendered":"Hilariously, WRAL picks NC Central as the top football team in the state"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>No, it&#8217;s not a joke. The NC Central Eagles, who earlier in the season lost to UCLA 59-7, moved up to the top spot in the WRAL College Football Power Rankings for the first time this season, ahead of UNC, Duke and State &#8211; none of whom by the way would lose by 52 to UCLA. WRAL&#8217;s disclaimer says, &#8220;This vote is based on how well we believe each program would do in their respective level and not based on who we believe would win head-to-head.&#8221; So, it means nothing then since it&#8217;s apples and oranges? Is it just an agenda-driven, woke thing? You decide. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wralsportsfan.com\/nccu-eagles-claim-no-1-spot-in-the-wral-college-football-power-rankings\/21125306\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Please click here for more<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No, it&#8217;s not a joke. The NC Central Eagles, who earlier in the season lost to UCLA 59-7, moved up to the top spot in&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1824852,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[82,79,81,80],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1824850","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-duke-blue-devils","category-featured-stories","category-n-c-state-wolfpack","category-north-carolina-tar-heels","wpcat-82-id","wpcat-79-id","wpcat-81-id","wpcat-80-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1824850","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1824850"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1824850\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1824853,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1824850\/revisions\/1824853"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1824852"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1824850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1824850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1824850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}