{"id":1891963,"date":"2026-07-11T10:24:07","date_gmt":"2026-07-11T14:24:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=1891963"},"modified":"2026-07-11T11:44:00","modified_gmt":"2026-07-11T15:44:00","slug":"athlon-picks-nc-state-to-finish-9th-in-the-acc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=1891963","title":{"rendered":"Athlon Picks NC State to Finish 9th in the ACC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Athlon Sports has released its 2026 ACC preseason predictions, and the publication projects NC State to finish ninth in the conference this fall. Athlon believes Dave Doeren&#8217;s team has the potential to exceed expectations thanks to a favorable schedule and the return of quarterback CJ Bailey. Athlon&#8217;s 2026 ACC Predictions Miami SMU Louisville Clemson Virginia [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/packinsider.com\/2026\/07\/11\/athlon-2026-acc-predictions-nc-state-football\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Click here to read the full article<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Athlon Sports has released its 2026 ACC preseason predictions, and the publication projects NC State to finish ninth in the conference this fall. Athlon believes Dave&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"Default","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[81],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1891963","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-n-c-state-wolfpack","wpcat-81-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1891963","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=1891963"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1891963\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1891964,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1891963\/revisions\/1891964"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1891963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1891963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1891963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}