{"id":1934655,"date":"2026-09-23T17:22:07","date_gmt":"2026-09-23T21:22:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=1934655"},"modified":"2026-09-23T19:34:31","modified_gmt":"2026-09-23T23:34:31","slug":"espn-puts-nc-state-in-its-bottom-10-the-athletic-calls-the-wolfpack-college-footballs-most-average-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=1934655","title":{"rendered":"ESPN puts NC State in its Bottom 10; The Athletic calls the Wolfpack college football\u2019s most average program"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NC State found itself on two national lists Wednesday, and neither is one the Wolfpack wanted to make. ESPN\u2019s Ryan McGee placed State at No. 5 in his Week 3 Bottom 10 following Saturday\u2019s stunning loss at Vanderbilt. Then The Athletic ranked NC State No. 1 among college football\u2019s most average programs, using that same [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/packinsider.com\/2026\/09\/23\/espn-puts-nc-state-in-its-bottom-10-the-athletic-calls-the-wolfpack-college-footballs-most-average-program\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Click here to read the full article<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NC State found itself on two national lists Wednesday, and neither is one the Wolfpack wanted to make. ESPN\u2019s Ryan McGee placed State at No. 5&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":1934688,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[81],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1934655","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\/1934655","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=1934655"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1934655\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1934657,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1934655\/revisions\/1934657"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1934688"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1934655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1934655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1934655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}