{"id":53292,"date":"2014-08-28T16:00:09","date_gmt":"2014-08-28T21:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=53292"},"modified":"2014-08-28T16:49:20","modified_gmt":"2014-08-28T21:49:20","slug":"bison-football-preview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=53292","title":{"rendered":"Bison football preview"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/newsnowGoBison.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-35817\" alt=\"newsnowGoBison\" src=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/newsnowGoBison-300x69.png\" width=\"300\" height=\"69\" srcset=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/newsnowGoBison-300x69.png 300w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/newsnowGoBison.png 386w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>FARGO, N.D. (AP) &#8211; North Dakota State&#8217;s quest for a record four straight Football Championship Subdivision titles will be built around a defense that returns six starters.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The Bison bring back strong safety Colton Heagle, who is a nominee for the Buck Buchanan Award as the best defensive player in FCS.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Last year&#8217;s team leaders in tackles, sacks and interceptions are back, too. NDSU also has running back John Crockett and wide receiver Zach Vraa, who set a school record last year with 15 touchdown receptions.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 There are holes to fill. The Bison lost its quarterback, four starters on the offensive line and three starters on the defensive line.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 NDSU head coach Chris Klieman (KLY&#8217;-min) says the newcomers have looked good in practice but isn&#8217;t sure how they&#8217;ll respond Saturday at Iowa State.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0FARGO, N.D. (AP) &#8211; North Dakota State&#8217;s quest for a record four straight Football Championship Subdivision titles will be built around a defense that returns six starters. \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The Bison bring back strong safety Colton Heagle, who is a nominee for the Buck Buchanan Award as the best defensive [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":35849,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53292","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=53292"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53292\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53302,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53292\/revisions\/53302"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/35849"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}