{"id":1943538,"date":"2026-11-10T12:54:04","date_gmt":"2026-11-10T17:54:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=1943538"},"modified":"2026-11-11T10:06:57","modified_gmt":"2026-11-11T15:06:57","slug":"philip-rivers-arrives-at-nc-state-as-24-team-college-football-playoff-changes-whats-possible-for-the-wolfpack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=1943538","title":{"rendered":"Philip Rivers Arrives at NC State as 24-Team College Football Playoff Changes What\u2019s Possible for the Wolfpack"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Philip Rivers is coming home. NC State hasn&#8217;t officially announced Rivers as the next head football coach, but at this point, it appears to be a matter of paperwork. The College Football Playoff unanimously approved an expansion from 12 teams to 24 teams yesterday, and the new format will begin next season. With NC State [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/packinsider.com\/2026\/11\/10\/24-team-college-football-playoff-philip-rivers-nc-state-history\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Click here to read the full article<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Philip Rivers is coming home. NC State hasn&#8217;t officially announced Rivers as the next head football coach, but at this point, it appears to be a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":1943539,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"Default","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"http:\/\/packinsider.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/featured_social-24.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[81],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1943538","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\/1943538","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=1943538"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1943538\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1943540,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1943538\/revisions\/1943540"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1943539"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1943538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1943538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1943538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}