{"id":23922,"date":"2013-07-29T09:51:18","date_gmt":"2013-07-29T14:51:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=23922"},"modified":"2013-07-29T11:43:04","modified_gmt":"2013-07-29T16:43:04","slug":"bison-football-expected-to-three-peat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=23922","title":{"rendered":"Bison Football Expected to Three-peat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/NDSU2.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-917\" alt=\"NDSU2\" src=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/NDSU2.png\" width=\"150\" height=\"101\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0By LUKE MEREDITH<br \/>\n\u00a0AP Sports Writer<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The Missouri Valley Football conference has long been one of the deepest and most competitive leagues in the Championship Subdivision.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Rarely has a team been as big of a preseason favorite as North Dakota State.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The two-time defending national champion Bison were a unanimous pick to win the league in a poll released Monday. North Dakota State, which returns 18 total starters for the squad that went 14-1 and trounced Sam Houston State in the national title game, got all 39 first-place votes from a collection of league coaches and media.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 South Dakota State was second, followed by Northern Iowa and Illinois State.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>FARGO, N.D. (APJul 29, 2013) &#8211; North Dakota State University is the unanimous pick to repeat as Missouri Valley Football Conference champion.<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The Bison got all 39 first-place votes in the preseason poll of league coaches, media and sports information directors. NDSU has won back-to-back Football Championship Subdivision titles.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 NDSU is followed in the poll by South Dakota State, Northern Iowa, Illinois State and Youngstown State.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The bottom five, in order, are Indiana State, Southern Illinois, Missouri State, Western Illinois and South Dakota.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0\u00a0By LUKE MEREDITH \u00a0AP Sports Writer \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The Missouri Valley Football conference has long been one of the deepest and most competitive leagues in the Championship Subdivision. \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Rarely has a team been as big of a preseason favorite as North Dakota State. \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The two-time defending national [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":21857,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23922","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\/23922","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=23922"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23922\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23939,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23922\/revisions\/23939"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/21857"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}