{"id":450,"date":"2010-12-05T19:38:00","date_gmt":"2010-12-06T02:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capitalsports.us\/?p=450"},"modified":"2010-12-05T19:38:00","modified_gmt":"2010-12-06T02:38:00","slug":"wolfpack-team-fan-base-contributed-to-strong-bowl-pick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=450","title":{"rendered":"Wolfpack team, fan base contributed to strong bowl pick"},"content":{"rendered":"

The fact that N.C. State wound up in the Champs Sports Bowl says a great deal about how this team and the Wolfpack fan base are viewed.<\/p>\n

Virginia Tech was headed to the Orange Bowl – that was a given. And Florida State fit the ACC’s No. 2 bowl, the Chick-fil-A. That left the Champs picking third, and looking at a Wolfpack team that is 8-4 overall and 5-3 in league play.<\/p>\n

By ACC rules, the Champs could take any team within one game in the ACC standings of the highest remaining team. Maryland, N.C. State and Miami were 5-3 in ACC play, and Georgia Tech, North Carolina, Boston College and Clemson were all 4-4. But Maryland doesn’t travel and Miami is in disarray.  So State, with an exciting quarterback and a program thrilled to be back in the bowl picture, made sense.<\/p>\n

<\/a>By the way, here were the order of selections for the ACC’s remaining bowls:
No. 4 – the Sun took Miami
No. 5 – the Meineke Car Care took Clemson, in part because UNC has made so many Charlotte appearances
No. 6 – the Music City took Carolina
No. 7 – the Independence Bowl took Georgia Tech
No. 8 – the Military Bowl in Washington, D.C., got a boost with an 8-4 Maryland team to pair with East Carolina
No. 9 – Boston College, as always, got shipped to San Francisco for the Kraft Fight Hunger Bowl.<\/p>\n

By the way, if you wanted an illustration of why Tom O’Brien left Boston College, this was it. N.C. State, with a big fan base, gets a high bowl and Boston College, as is often the case, gets the left-overs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The fact that N.C. State wound up in the Champs Sports Bowl says a great deal about how this team and the Wolfpack fan base…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-450","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","wpcat-1-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/450","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=450"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/450\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}