{"id":11221,"date":"2014-11-23T12:04:28","date_gmt":"2014-11-23T19:04:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/?p=11221"},"modified":"2014-11-23T12:06:49","modified_gmt":"2014-11-23T19:06:49","slug":"time-for-a-third-meeting-with-carroll","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/2014\/11\/time-for-a-third-meeting-with-carroll\/","title":{"rendered":"Time for a third meeting with Carroll"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_11222\" style=\"width: 810px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/14N_7647-SOU-football-rain.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11222\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/14N_7647-SOU-football-rain-800x598.jpg\" alt=\"SOU football rain\" width=\"800\" height=\"598\" class=\"size-large wp-image-11222\" srcset=\"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/14N_7647-SOU-football-rain-800x598.jpg 800w, https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/14N_7647-SOU-football-rain-250x187.jpg 250w, https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/14N_7647-SOU-football-rain.jpg 1443w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-11222\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">SOU football team beats MNU on 11\/22\/14 in the rain<\/p><\/div>\n<p>@SOURaiders @SOU_Football<\/p>\n<p>The 2014 NAIA Football Championship Series Quarterfinal Pairings came out this morning and have SOU going to play Carroll for the third time this season. You&#8217;d think that with 88 football teams in the NAIA they could come up with a way that you didn&#8217;t have to play a team three times (unless the third time was a championship game which this isn&#8217;t). In any event, SOU knows they can beat Carroll, Carroll knows SOU is probably the only team that can beat them, and for all intents and purposes the 11\/29 game is the championship game. I&#8217;m sure Carroll would rather play any of the other remaining teams. <\/p>\n<p>As it turned out (according to the 2014 NAIA Football Coaches\u2019 Top 25 Poll), #8 is at #1, #7 is at #2, etc. That means, of course, that had SOU gotten past EOU last week SOU would likely be hosting another game against the #5 or #6 team instead of going on the road to play the #1 team. Oh well. SOU didn&#8217;t get screwed as much as EOU, the <a href=http:\/\/www.hensleyratings.com\/ratings\/2014\/week-12\/naia\/5 target=_new>third best team in the country according to better rankings<\/a>, who was not even given the chance to play in the final 16.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>@SOURaiders @SOU_Football The 2014 NAIA Football Championship Series Quarterfinal Pairings came out this morning and have SOU going to play Carroll for the third time this season. You&#8217;d think that with 88 football teams in the NAIA they could come up with a way that you didn&#8217;t have to play a team three times (unless [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13,11],"tags":[121,130,326,245,255,18,198],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11221"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11221"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11221\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11225,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11221\/revisions\/11225"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}