{"id":1933937,"date":"2026-09-19T17:31:36","date_gmt":"2026-09-19T21:31:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=1933937"},"modified":"2026-09-19T18:43:03","modified_gmt":"2026-09-19T22:43:03","slug":"nc-state-finds-an-unthinkable-way-to-lose-at-vanderbilt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=1933937","title":{"rendered":"NC State Finds an Unthinkable Way to Lose at Vanderbilt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well&#8230;I&#8217;m sure it&#8217;s happened before&#8230;but I&#8217;ve never seen it before. With 6 seconds left, NC State had to decide what they were going to do with the ball on 4th and 7 from their own 5-yard line. Vanderbilt was out of timeouts. Option 1, the Wolfpack could punt the ball, and risk, the ball being [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/packinsider.com\/2026\/09\/19\/nc-state-vanderbilt-final-play-fumble-loss-2026\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Click here to read the full article<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well&#8230;I&#8217;m sure it&#8217;s happened before&#8230;but I&#8217;ve never seen it before. With 6 seconds left, NC State had to decide what they were going to do with&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":1933938,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"Default","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[81],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1933937","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\/1933937","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=1933937"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1933937\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1933939,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1933937\/revisions\/1933939"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1933938"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1933937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1933937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1933937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}