{"id":16695,"date":"2016-10-16T10:31:59","date_gmt":"2016-10-16T17:31:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/?p=16695"},"modified":"2025-03-18T11:39:44","modified_gmt":"2025-03-18T18:39:44","slug":"down-but-not-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/2016\/10\/down-but-not-out\/","title":{"rendered":"Down but not out"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a data-flickr-embed=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/60035031@N06\/30248337772\/in\/dateposted-public\/\" title=\"Rainy catch\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/30248337772_2dd227ac78_b.jpg\" width=\"1024\" height=\"521\" alt=\"Rainy catch\"\/><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The Raiders lost to their football nemesis yesterday. Details <a href=\"http:\/\/www.souraiders.com\/news\/2016\/10\/16\/football-no-16-mounties-wreak-more-havoc-at-raider-stadium-win-39-29.aspx\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>. Matt Retzlaff broke the SOU career receiving-yards record in today&#8217;s photo.<\/p>\n<p>Southern Oregon has outgained all seven of their opponents in total yardage. However, SOU has a negative turnover ratio in five games, three of which were losses. <\/p>\n<p>Surprisingly, Massey still has Southern Oregon at #4 in the country. Of course, Massey considers strength of schedule, and SOU has the toughest opponents of anyone in the NAIA. The coaches won&#8217;t be as generous in their rankings come Monday. I&#8217;m guessing they will drop the Raiders to #12 or #13. With just four games to go, what will this mean?<\/p>\n<p>The Raiders can still win the Frontier Conference if they win out and Western Montana beats Eastern Oregon. That&#8217;s also probably the only scenario that will earn the Raiders a home playoff game in the postseason. One more loss and the Raiders will still have a chance at the postseason but no games will be in Ashland.<\/p>\n<p>Massey has the Raiders as a 7-point favorite at College of Idaho Saturday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Raiders lost to their football nemesis yesterday. Details here. Matt Retzlaff broke the SOU career receiving-yards record in today&#8217;s photo. Southern Oregon has outgained all seven of their opponents in total yardage. However, SOU has a negative turnover ratio in five games, three of which were losses. Surprisingly, Massey still has Southern Oregon at [&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":[121,369,130,478,245,255,198],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16695"}],"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=16695"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16695\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33577,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16695\/revisions\/33577"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}