{"id":1927120,"date":"2026-08-08T12:48:54","date_gmt":"2026-08-08T16:48:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=1927120"},"modified":"2026-08-08T12:56:53","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T16:56:53","slug":"nc-state-mens-soccer-ranked-no-2-nationally-in-preseason-poll","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=1927120","title":{"rendered":"NC State Men\u2019s Soccer Ranked No. 2 Nationally in Preseason Poll"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Expectations couldn&#8217;t be much higher for NC State Men&#8217;s Soccer heading into the 2026 season. The United Soccer Coaches Preseason Poll was released this week, and the Wolfpack will begin the season ranked No. 2 nationally after making a historic run to the National Championship game last season. NC State received 192 points in the [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/packinsider.com\/2026\/08\/08\/nc-state-mens-soccer-ranked-no-2-2026-preseason-poll\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Click here to read the full article<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Expectations couldn&#8217;t be much higher for NC State Men&#8217;s Soccer heading into the 2026 season. The United Soccer Coaches Preseason Poll was released this week, and&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":1927122,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[81],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1927120","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\/1927120","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=1927120"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1927120\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1927121,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1927120\/revisions\/1927121"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1927122"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1927120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1927120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1927120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}