{"id":105176,"date":"2016-08-03T09:46:57","date_gmt":"2016-08-03T14:46:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=105176"},"modified":"2016-08-03T09:46:57","modified_gmt":"2016-08-03T14:46:57","slug":"bison-football-tabbed-favorite-preseason-poll","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=105176","title":{"rendered":"Bison football tabbed favorite, preseason poll"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-58262\" src=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Bison-FB-logo1-300x202.jpg\" alt=\"Bison FB logo1\" width=\"300\" height=\"202\" srcset=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Bison-FB-logo1-300x202.jpg 300w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Bison-FB-logo1-259x175.jpg 259w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Bison-FB-logo1.jpg 445w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>FARGO, N.D. (AP) &#8211; Five-time defending national champion North Dakota State has been tabbed as the favorite to win this year&#8217;s Missouri Valley Football Conference title.<\/p>\n<p>The Bison earned 37 of a possible 39 first-place votes in the preseason poll conducted among the league&#8217;s coaches, sports information directors and select media representatives.<\/p>\n<p>Northern Iowa received the other two first-place votes to finish second in the poll, followed by South Dakota State, Illinois State and Youngstown State.<\/p>\n<p>Rounding out the top 10 are Western Illinois, South Dakota, Southern Illinois, Indiana State and Missouri State.<\/p>\n<p>NDSU captured its fifth consecutive Football Championship Subdivision crown in January with a 37-10 win over Jacksonville State.<\/p>\n<p>This is the fifth straight season that the Bison have topped the conference preseason poll.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FARGO, N.D. (AP) &#8211; Five-time defending national champion North Dakota State has been tabbed as the favorite to win this year&#8217;s Missouri Valley Football Conference title. The Bison earned 37 of a possible 39 first-place votes in the preseason poll conducted among the league&#8217;s coaches, sports information directors and select [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":58261,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-105176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105176","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=105176"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105176\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":105177,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105176\/revisions\/105177"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/58261"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=105176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=105176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=105176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}