{"id":205316,"date":"2025-10-06T16:55:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-06T16:55:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/205316\/"},"modified":"2025-10-06T16:55:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-06T16:55:10","slug":"nc-state-heads-to-notre-dame-as-a-huge-underdog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/205316\/","title":{"rendered":"NC State heads to Notre Dame as a huge underdog"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">NC State needs to find two wins in the back half of the schedule to get bowl eligible\u2014or one win, if you assume Dave goes into retirement in style with a big win over UNC and interim head coach Steve Belichick to cap the regular season. The Wolfpack is probably not going to locate one of those wins in South Bend.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Notre Dame has the No. 3 offense in the country, according to SP+, so it\u2019s going to be a tough ask for State\u2019s banged up defense to keep the Pack in this one. Notre Dame is favored by 22.5 points after opening as a 21.5-point favorite on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">One thing\u2019s for sure: if NC State is going to have a chance, it has to force some turnovers. The defense has now gone three straight games without a takeaway, so \u2026 we\u2019re due? Gonna need about four of \u2018em. It\u2019s tough to imagine the Pack putting up enough resistance otherwise.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NC State needs to find two wins in the back half of the schedule to get bowl eligible\u2014or&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":205317,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[399,91627,398,396,397,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-205316","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ncaa-football","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-nc-state-football","10":"tag-ncaa","11":"tag-ncaa-football","12":"tag-ncaafootball","13":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205316","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=205316"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205316\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/205317"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=205316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=205316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=205316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}