{"id":58160,"date":"2014-11-03T16:29:55","date_gmt":"2014-11-03T22:29:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=58160"},"modified":"2014-11-03T16:29:55","modified_gmt":"2014-11-03T22:29:55","slug":"vcsu-football-up-2-spots-in-poll","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=58160","title":{"rendered":"VCSU football up 2 spots in poll"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/vcsuhelmet.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-7185\" alt=\"vcsuhelmet\" src=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/vcsuhelmet-300x198.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"198\" srcset=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/vcsuhelmet-300x198.jpg 300w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/vcsuhelmet-431x286.jpg 431w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/vcsuhelmet-264x175.jpg 264w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/vcsuhelmet.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>VALLEY CITY (VCSU) &#8211; The Valley City State University football team moved up two spots to No. 15 in this week&#8217;s NAIA Top 25 football poll, released by the national office on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>The Vikings (8-1, 5-0 NSAA) clinched a share of the North Star Athletic Association regular season conference title with a 63-19 win at Mayville State on Saturday. The Vikings can win the conference title outright with a victory in their final regular season game, Nov. 8 at Presentation College.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Vikings received 151 poll points this week, up from 133 last week. The No. 15 ranking is VCSU&#8217;s highest ranking in the poll since the 2011 season, when they went as high as No. 12 in the country.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Vikings must be ranked inside the Top 20 and win the conference title to qualify for the NAIA playoffs. A win Saturday at Presentation College would all but assure VCSU of a playoff spot.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>VCSU&#8217;s only loss this season came back on Sept. 6 to Morningside College, which continues to be ranked No. 1 in the country. The Mustangs were a unanimous No. 1 in the poll this week. They are currently 8-0 and the only undefeated team remaining in NAIA football.<\/p>\n<p>Carroll College (Mont.) is ranked No. 2 this week, followed by Grand View (Iowa), Faulkner (Ala.) and Southern Oregon to round out the Top 5.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VALLEY CITY (VCSU) &#8211; The Valley City State University football team moved up two spots to No. 15 in this week&#8217;s NAIA Top 25 football poll, released by the national office on Monday. The Vikings (8-1, 5-0 NSAA) clinched a share of the North Star Athletic Association regular season conference [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":24632,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58160","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\/58160","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=58160"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58160\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58161,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58160\/revisions\/58161"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/24632"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}