{"id":59099,"date":"2014-11-16T18:14:16","date_gmt":"2014-11-17T00:14:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=59099"},"modified":"2014-11-16T18:14:16","modified_gmt":"2014-11-17T00:14:16","slug":"vikings-football-to-play-carroll-college-1st-round","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=59099","title":{"rendered":"Vikings football to play Carroll College 1st round"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/vcsuSports-small.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-24632\" alt=\"vcsuSports-small\" src=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/vcsuSports-small-300x202.png\" width=\"300\" height=\"202\" srcset=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/vcsuSports-small-300x202.png 300w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/vcsuSports-small-431x291.png 431w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/vcsuSports-small-259x175.png 259w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/vcsuSports-small.png 445w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>VALLEY CITY (VCSU) &#8211; The Valley City State University football team will face<br \/>\nCarroll College in the first round of the NAIA playoffs, the national office<br \/>\nannounced Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>VCSU, ranked No. 14 in the country, will play at No. 1-ranked Carroll College on<br \/>\nSaturday, Nov. 22. Game time is to be determined. The Vikings are making their<br \/>\neighth NAIA playoff appearance, and fourth playoff appearance under coach Dennis<br \/>\nMcCulloch.<\/p>\n<p>It is the fourth straight time that VCSU will play Carroll College in the playoffs.<br \/>\nThe Vikings faced Carroll College in the three previous playoff games under Coach<br \/>\nMcCulloch. In 2000, VCSU hosted Carroll at the Fargodome and lost 24-21. In 2001,<br \/>\nthe Vikings traveled to Carroll and lost 45-27. In 2011, VCSU was ranked No. 12 and<br \/>\nwent on the road to No. 2 Carroll, losing 47-0.<\/p>\n<p>The Vikings moved up one spot to No. 14 in the final regular season poll released on<br \/>\nSunday. It is the highest ranking for VCSU since being ranked No. 12 in the 2011<br \/>\nfinal regular season poll. In 2011, the Vikings went to Carroll in the first round<br \/>\nof the playoffs and lost 47-0.<\/p>\n<p>Valley City State University finished the regular season 9-1 overall and 6-0 in the<br \/>\nNorth Star Athletic Association, winning their fourth straight conference<br \/>\nchampionship.<\/p>\n<p>The Valley City State University athletic department is organizing a fan bus to<br \/>\ntravel to the playoff game. For more information, contact athletic director Jack<br \/>\nDenholm at 701-845-7160 or <a href=\"http:\/\/webmail.csicable.net\/webmail\/src\/compose.php?send_to=jack.denholm%40vcsu.edu\">jack.denholm@vcsu.edu<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VALLEY CITY (VCSU) &#8211; The Valley City State University football team will face Carroll College in the first round of the NAIA playoffs, the national office announced Sunday. VCSU, ranked No. 14 in the country, will play at No. 1-ranked Carroll College on Saturday, Nov. 22. Game time is to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":7185,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59099","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\/59099","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=59099"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59099\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59101,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59099\/revisions\/59101"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7185"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}