{"id":1892414,"date":"2026-07-15T13:07:18","date_gmt":"2026-07-15T17:07:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=1892414"},"modified":"2026-07-15T13:44:03","modified_gmt":"2026-07-15T17:44:03","slug":"nc-state-has-to-capitalize-on-weak-strength-of-schedule","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=1892414","title":{"rendered":"NC State Has to Capitalize on Weak Strength of Schedule"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NC State may not be generating a ton of preseason buzz entering the 2026 season, but the Wolfpack has one major advantage working in its favor. The schedule. According to ESPN&#8217;s Football Power Index (FPI), NC State owns the 66th-ranked strength of schedule nationally entering the season. Among Power Four programs, that ranks second-easiest in [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/packinsider.com\/2026\/07\/15\/nc-state-easiest-acc-football-schedule-2026\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Click here to read the full article<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NC State may not be generating a ton of preseason buzz entering the 2026 season, but the Wolfpack has one major advantage working in its favor&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":1892417,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[81],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1892414","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\/1892414","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\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1892414"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1892414\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1892416,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1892414\/revisions\/1892416"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1892417"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1892414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1892414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1892414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}