{"id":16740,"date":"2016-10-24T13:29:57","date_gmt":"2016-10-24T20:29:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/?p=16740"},"modified":"2025-02-24T08:57:53","modified_gmt":"2025-02-24T15:57:53","slug":"raiders-tumble-to-23","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/2016\/10\/raiders-tumble-to-23\/","title":{"rendered":"Raiders tumble to #23"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_16741\" style=\"width: 1034px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a data-flickr-embed=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/60035031@N06\/30567428235\/in\/dateposted-public\/\" title=\"Fumble Forcer\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-16741\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/30567428235_042683964b_b.jpg\" width=\"1024\" height=\"522\" alt=\"Fumble Forcer\"\/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-16741\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script> AJ Cooper causes a special teams fumble against College of Idaho<\/p><\/div>\n<p>SOU&#8217;s loss at College of Idaho this past Saturday seemed to end the Raiders&#8217; post-season hopes. The coaches confirmed this in today&#8217;s poll by dropping the Raiders to #23 with just three weeks to go. Even if the Raiders win out (and upset #7 Montana Tech) they will likely finish no higher than #17 in the final poll. They would need no worse than a top 14 ranking to make the playoffs (as probably two or more teams not in the top 16 that are not in the Frontier Conference will make the playoffs).<\/p>\n<p>Massey has the Raiders, with the hardest schedule in the country, @ #5 (and Montana Tech @ #2). The coaches don&#8217;t consider strength of schedule in their rankings. That&#8217;s why teams like Kansas Wesleyan, Tabor, Southeastern, Sterling, Arizona Christian, and Concordia (Nebraska) are ahead of the Raiders in the coaches rankings and will likely remain there as they don&#8217;t play any decent teams. Hence, they have little chance of dropping in the rankings. Never mind that Massey Ratings doesn&#8217;t have any of those teams in their top 40.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SOU&#8217;s loss at College of Idaho this past Saturday seemed to end the Raiders&#8217; post-season hopes. The coaches confirmed this in today&#8217;s poll by dropping the Raiders to #23 with just three weeks to go. Even if the Raiders win out (and upset #7 Montana Tech) they will likely finish no higher than #17 in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11],"tags":[554,121,130,478,245,198],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16740"}],"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=16740"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16740\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33465,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16740\/revisions\/33465"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}