{"id":1938424,"date":"2026-10-16T08:56:27","date_gmt":"2026-10-16T12:56:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=1938424"},"modified":"2026-10-16T09:12:06","modified_gmt":"2026-10-16T13:12:06","slug":"nc-state-has-fallen-30-spots-in-sp-rankings-since-preseason-heres-how-the-remaining-games-are-projected","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=1938424","title":{"rendered":"NC State Has Fallen 30 Spots in SP+ Rankings Since Preseason: Here\u2019s How the Remaining Games Are Projected"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NC State entered the 2026 football season ranked No. 48 nationally in ESPN&#8217;s SP+ rankings, but through six games, the Wolfpack has fallen considerably short of those preseason expectations. Following a 38-14 loss to Wake Forest last Saturday, NC State sits at 3-3 overall and 1-2 in ACC play. The Wolfpack also dropped 18 spots [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/packinsider.com\/2026\/10\/16\/nc-state-football-sp-rankings-drop-30-spots-projections\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Click here to read the full article<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NC State entered the 2026 football season ranked No. 48 nationally in ESPN&#8217;s SP+ rankings, but through six games, the Wolfpack has fallen considerably short of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"Default","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[81],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1938424","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-n-c-state-wolfpack","wpcat-81-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1938424","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=1938424"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1938424\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1938425,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1938424\/revisions\/1938425"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1938424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1938424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1938424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}