{"id":32848,"date":"2024-11-17T18:06:28","date_gmt":"2024-11-18T01:06:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/?p=32848"},"modified":"2024-11-17T18:33:20","modified_gmt":"2024-11-18T01:33:20","slug":"raider-football-misses-playoffs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/2024\/11\/raider-football-misses-playoffs\/","title":{"rendered":"Raider football misses playoffs"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_32849\" style=\"width: 1034px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/24N_2947-RAW-sou-football-berk-brown-standard.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-32849\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/24N_2947-RAW-sou-football-berk-brown-standard.jpg\" alt=\"sou football berk brown\" width=\"1024\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-32849\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">2024 SOU Football<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Details <a href=\"https:\/\/souraiders.com\/news\/2024\/11\/17\/football-raiders-miss-postseason-at-no-22-in-final-poll.aspx\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Massey Ratings, being far less biased and without relying on any &#8220;various criteria&#8221;&#8211;which sounds like an arbitrary system, was far kinder to the Raiders. SOU landed at #11 according to Massey which would have not only been good enough for a playoff spot but a first round bye as well.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/massey.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/massey.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"1274\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-32850\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Several of the teams that made it to the NAIA football playoffs wouldn&#8217;t have made the cut had computerized rankings been utilized. Massey had Pikeville, for instance, at #41. Kansas Wesleyan clocked in at #50. Four other playoff teams weren&#8217;t in Massey&#8217;s top 25. Five of those six teams are close to NAIA headquarters which must be one of the key criteria the committee factors into its decisions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Details here. Massey Ratings, being far less biased and without relying on any &#8220;various criteria&#8221;&#8211;which sounds like an arbitrary system, was far kinder to the Raiders. SOU landed at #11 according to Massey which would have not only been good enough for a playoff spot but a first round bye as well. Several of the [&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":[935,121,1395,1108,995,245],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32848"}],"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=32848"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32848\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32856,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32848\/revisions\/32856"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}