{"id":1928292,"date":"2026-08-17T12:33:33","date_gmt":"2026-08-17T16:33:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=1928292"},"modified":"2026-08-17T13:44:57","modified_gmt":"2026-08-17T17:44:57","slug":"unc-faces-three-teams-ranked-in-preseason-ap-poll-including-two-in-top-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=1928292","title":{"rendered":"UNC faces three teams ranked in preseason AP poll, including two in top 10"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The preseason AP Top 25 football poll offers more proof that North Carolina\u2019s 2026 schedule is far tougher than the one it faced during a 4\u20138 season a year ago. Virginia was the Tar Heels&#8217; only ranked opponent last season (No. 16 when UNC lost 17-16 in overtime at Kenan Stadium on Oct. 25), but this year they\u2019ll face three ranked teams, including two in the top 10, along with four others that received votes.<\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/tarheeltribune.com\/2026\/08\/17\/unc-faces-three-teams-ranked-in-preseason-ap-poll-including-two-in-top-10\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">UNC faces three teams ranked in preseason AP poll, including two in top 10<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/tarheeltribune.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/tarheeltribune.com\/2026\/08\/17\/unc-faces-three-teams-ranked-in-preseason-ap-poll-including-two-in-top-10\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Click here to read the full article<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The preseason AP Top 25 football poll offers more proof that North Carolina\u2019s 2026 schedule is far tougher than the one it faced during a 4\u20138&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"Default","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[80],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1928292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-north-carolina-tar-heels","wpcat-80-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1928292","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\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1928292"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1928292\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1928293,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1928292\/revisions\/1928293"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1928292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1928292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1928292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}