{"id":683545,"date":"2018-08-21T12:26:17","date_gmt":"2018-08-21T16:26:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=683545"},"modified":"2018-08-21T12:26:17","modified_gmt":"2018-08-21T16:26:17","slug":"sizing-up-the-acc-season-in-august","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=683545","title":{"rendered":"Sizing up the ACC season in August"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"ftpimagefix\" style=\"float:left\"><a class=\"colorbox\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wralsportsfan.com\/sizing-up-the-acc-season-in-august\/17782989\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/wwwcache.wralsportsfan.com\/asset\/football\/nfl\/2018\/08\/16\/17773429\/media_140d0e3324c24f0ca4fc0ee896fc9ff3-DMID1-5fv382o78-80x60.jpg\" alt=\"NC_State_Preview_Football_76510\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p>We all do it: Fans and media. We base expectations for upcoming seasons on two factors: Which players are gone and which players, especially starters, return. Ryan Finley playing yet another season at quarterback in Raleigh connotes another big season for NC State in many minds, even though the Wolfpack lost two playmaking running backs and most of its defense. The departure of 2016 Heisman Trophy winner Lamar Jackson surely spells doom for Louisville, doesn&#8217;t it? Most believe that. Cardinals coach Bobby Petrino begs to differ. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wralsportsfan.com\/sizing-up-the-acc-season-in-august\/17782989\/\" class=\"colorbox\" id=\"rssmi_more\"> &#8230;read more<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Source:: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wralsportsfan.com\/sizing-up-the-acc-season-in-august\/17782989\/\" class=\"colorbox\" title=\"Sizing up the ACC season in August\">WRAL<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We all do it: Fans and media. We base expectations for upcoming seasons on two factors: Which players are gone and which players, especially starters,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[79],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-683545","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured-stories","wpcat-79-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/683545","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=683545"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/683545\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=683545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=683545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=683545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}