{"id":99751,"date":"2015-12-05T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-12-05T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=99751"},"modified":"2026-07-26T14:01:53","modified_gmt":"2026-07-26T18:01:53","slug":"brownlow-tar-heels-a-trendy-pick-but-no-1-clemson-still-has-something-to-prove","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=99751","title":{"rendered":"Brownlow: Tar Heels a trendy pick, but No. 1 Clemson still has something to prove"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"ftpimagefix\" style=\"float:left\"><a class=\"colorbox\" href=\"http:\/\/www.wralsportsfan.com\/tar-heels-a-trendy-pick-but-no-1-clemson-still-has-something-to-prove\/15155042\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/wwwcache.wralsportsfan.com\/asset\/colleges\/unc\/2015\/09\/19\/14911764\/14911764-1443095113-160x120.jpg\" alt=\"UNC routs Illinois, 48-14\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p>North Carolina is hotter than Derek Zoolander right now, but Clemson didn&#8217;t get to No. 1 in the country by accident. So let&#8217;s get that out of the way. The Tigers are very good, and even though North Carolina is becoming a bit of a trendy upset pick, make no mistake &#8211; this will be by far the toughest game the Tar Heels have played to date. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wralsportsfan.com\/tar-heels-a-trendy-pick-but-no-1-clemson-still-has-something-to-prove\/15155042\/\" class=\"colorbox\" id=\"rssmi_more\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> &#8230;read more<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Source:: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wralsportsfan.com\/tar-heels-a-trendy-pick-but-no-1-clemson-still-has-something-to-prove\/15155042\/\" class=\"colorbox\" title=\"Brownlow: Tar Heels a trendy pick, but No. 1 Clemson still has something to prove\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">WRAL<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>North Carolina is hotter than Derek Zoolander right now, but Clemson didn&#8217;t get to No. 1 in the country by accident. So let&#8217;s get that out&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[79,80],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-99751","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured-stories","category-north-carolina-tar-heels","wpcat-79-id","wpcat-80-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99751","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=99751"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99751\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1922295,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99751\/revisions\/1922295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=99751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=99751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=99751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}