{"id":1891916,"date":"2026-07-10T20:02:36","date_gmt":"2026-07-11T00:02:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=1891916"},"modified":"2026-07-10T23:43:56","modified_gmt":"2026-07-11T03:43:56","slug":"espns-fpi-projects-nc-state-to-finish-11th-in-the-acc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=1891916","title":{"rendered":"ESPN\u2019s FPI Projects NC State to Finish 11th in the ACC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ESPN has released its updated Football Power Index (FPI) rankings ahead of the 2026 college football season, and the projection isn&#8217;t nearly as optimistic about NC State as several other preseason publications. The Wolfpack checks in at No. 51 nationally, which ranks 11th in the ACC according to ESPN&#8217;s predictive model. ESPN&#8217;s Projection According to [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/packinsider.com\/2026\/07\/10\/espn-fpi-2026-nc-state-football-rankings\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Click here to read the full article<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ESPN has released its updated Football Power Index (FPI) rankings ahead of the 2026 college football season, and the projection isn&#8217;t nearly as optimistic about NC&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1891919,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[81],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1891916","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-n-c-state-wolfpack","wpcat-81-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1891916","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=1891916"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1891916\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1891918,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1891916\/revisions\/1891918"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1891919"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1891916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1891916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1891916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}