{"id":20891,"date":"2018-11-11T15:31:11","date_gmt":"2018-11-11T22:31:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/?p=20891"},"modified":"2018-11-11T15:43:55","modified_gmt":"2018-11-11T22:43:55","slug":"field-set-for-2018-naia-football-playoffs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/2018\/11\/field-set-for-2018-naia-football-playoffs\/","title":{"rendered":"Field set for 2018 NAIA football playoffs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Screenshot-2018-11-11-14.18.48.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Screenshot-2018-11-11-14.18.48-800x461.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"461\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-20892\" srcset=\"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Screenshot-2018-11-11-14.18.48-800x461.png 800w, https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Screenshot-2018-11-11-14.18.48-250x144.png 250w, https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Screenshot-2018-11-11-14.18.48-768x442.png 768w, https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Screenshot-2018-11-11-14.18.48.png 1620w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>#NAIAFootball #PlayNAIA @NAIA<\/p>\n<p>The coaches have spoken, and the Frontier Conference was allowed just one team in the postseason for the second year in a row. Never mind that Frontier Conference teams have won more road playoff games than any other conference in the past five years. Never mind that Frontier Conference teams who played non-Frontier Conference opponents won easily this year (Montana Northern won its only game when it played outside the conference, Rocky Mountain beat Dickinson State&#8211;yet Rocky enters the postseason as a lower seed than Dickinson, and Carroll College beat Linfield College who is 7-1 when not playing Frontier Conference teams).<\/p>\n<p>Massey has the Raiders as #10 in the country, but that&#8217;s not good enough for the postseason. Instead, teams like Kansas Wesleyan, who Massey has as #20, will be hosting a home playoff game. Neither Langston or Grand View are in Massey&#8217;s top 20, and Dickinson State isn&#8217;t even in Massey&#8217;s top 25. <\/p>\n<p>Massey has Rocky as 10-point underdogs at Morningside. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>#NAIAFootball #PlayNAIA @NAIA The coaches have spoken, and the Frontier Conference was allowed just one team in the postseason for the second year in a row. Never mind that Frontier Conference teams have won more road playoff games than any other conference in the past five years. Never mind that Frontier Conference teams who played [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[87],"tags":[121],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20891"}],"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=20891"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20891\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20898,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20891\/revisions\/20898"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}