{"id":16165,"date":"2016-08-08T19:43:19","date_gmt":"2016-08-09T02:43:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/?p=16165"},"modified":"2016-08-08T20:01:02","modified_gmt":"2016-08-09T03:01:02","slug":"2-in-the-nation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/2016\/08\/2-in-the-nation\/","title":{"rendered":"#2 in the nation"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_16166\" style=\"width: 496px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/massey-2016-football.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-16166\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/massey-2016-football.jpg\" alt=\"Massey predicts SOU&#039;s 2016 football season\" width=\"486\" height=\"465\" class=\"size-full wp-image-16166\" srcset=\"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/massey-2016-football.jpg 486w, https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/massey-2016-football-250x239.jpg 250w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 486px) 100vw, 486px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-16166\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Massey predicts SOU&#8217;s 2016 football season<\/p><\/div>\n<p>@SOURaiders @SOU_Football @Matt_Retzlaff @itsbronsenADER<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s way too early for these rankings to mean anything, but the <a href=http:\/\/www.souraiders.com\/news\/2016\/8\/8\/football-sou-starts-at-no-2-in-naia-preseason-coaches-poll.aspx target=_new>NAIA coaches have SOU at #2 in the country<\/a>, and Massey has them at #3. Massey Ratings, as shown above, also has SOU winning all of their regular season games against NAIA opponents. At Eastern Oregon, for the very first game, is a tough draw. If SOU can start the season 3-1 or 4-0, then these preseason predictions are probably correct. Go Raiders!<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_16167\" style=\"width: 702px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/165_0225-DNG-sou-football-Bronsen-Ader-matt-retzlaff.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-16167\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/165_0225-DNG-sou-football-Bronsen-Ader-matt-retzlaff-692x800.jpg\" alt=\"sou football Bronsen Ader matt retzlaff\" width=\"692\" height=\"800\" class=\"size-large wp-image-16167\" srcset=\"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/165_0225-DNG-sou-football-Bronsen-Ader-matt-retzlaff-692x800.jpg 692w, https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/165_0225-DNG-sou-football-Bronsen-Ader-matt-retzlaff-216x250.jpg 216w, https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/165_0225-DNG-sou-football-Bronsen-Ader-matt-retzlaff-768x888.jpg 768w, https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/165_0225-DNG-sou-football-Bronsen-Ader-matt-retzlaff.jpg 1500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 692px) 100vw, 692px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-16167\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bronsen Ader and Matt Retzlaff celebrate a touchdown in the 2016 spring game<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>@SOURaiders @SOU_Football @Matt_Retzlaff @itsbronsenADER It&#8217;s way too early for these rankings to mean anything, but the NAIA coaches have SOU at #2 in the country, and Massey has them at #3. Massey Ratings, as shown above, also has SOU winning all of their regular season games against NAIA opponents. At Eastern Oregon, for the very [&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":[517,121,369,245,198],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16165"}],"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=16165"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16165\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16169,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16165\/revisions\/16169"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}