{"id":59686,"date":"2014-11-24T07:53:58","date_gmt":"2014-11-24T13:53:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=59686"},"modified":"2014-11-24T10:49:03","modified_gmt":"2014-11-24T16:49:03","slug":"bison-2-seed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=59686","title":{"rendered":"Bison #2 seed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><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) \u2013 North Dakota State will begin its quest for its fourth straight FCS national championship as the Number 2 overall seed in the playoffs.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 New Hampshire (10-1) earned the top seed in the 24-team tournament pairings released Sunday. The top eight seeds receive first-round byes.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The field includes 11 conference champions who automatically qualified and 13 teams with at-large bids. All games will be played at home sites starting Saturday, except the Jan. 10 championship game in Frisco, Texas.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 North Dakota State (11-1) will play its first game Dec. 6 against the winner of South Dakota State and Montana State.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 New Hampshire will play Dec. 6 against the winner of the Sacred Heart-Fordham game.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Other top seeds receiving byes were: No. 3 Jacksonville State, No. 4 Eastern Washington, No. 5 Illinois State, No. 6 Villanova, No. 7 Coastal Carolina and No. 8 Chattanooga.<\/p>\n<p>The coach of three-time defending FCS champion North Dakota State says his team will have a big advantage hosting playoff games in the Fargodome.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Chris Klieman says, &#8220;it&#8217;s an electric atmosphere,&#8221; and a tough environment for opponents. But he also says the Bison have to play their best, or they could get knocked out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FARGO, N.D. (AP) \u2013 North Dakota State will begin its quest for its fourth straight FCS national championship as the Number 2 overall seed in the playoffs. \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 New Hampshire (10-1) earned the top seed in the 24-team tournament pairings released Sunday. The top eight seeds receive first-round byes. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":58262,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59686","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\/59686","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=59686"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59686\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59714,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59686\/revisions\/59714"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/58262"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}