{"id":78854,"date":"2015-08-11T07:38:40","date_gmt":"2015-08-11T12:38:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=78854"},"modified":"2015-08-11T07:51:17","modified_gmt":"2015-08-11T12:51:17","slug":"vcsu-ranked-17-in-naia-preseason-football-poll","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=78854","title":{"rendered":"VCSU ranked 17 in NAIA preseason football poll"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0<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\u00a0 (CSi)\u00a0 The Valley City State University Vikings football team is in the Top 25 of the\u00a0 2015 NAIA Football Coaches Preseason\u00a0 Poll.<\/p>\n<p>VCSU is ranked the 17th best team across the NAIA and the only team ranked in the top 25 from the North Star Athletic Association.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Southern Oregon and Marian (Ind.) finished tied for first in the preseason poll.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>VCSU starts the 2015 campaign against the University of Jamestown on Saturday, August 29th at 1:00 p.m. in Jamestown.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0Valley City State has been picked as the preseason favorite to win the North Star Athletic Association Football conference title, in the preseason coaches&#8217; poll. The preseason poll was voted by the league coaches. Coaches were not allowed to vote for their own team.<\/p>\n<p>The Vikings received five first-place votes and earned 33 points in the NSAA Football Coaches&#8217; Preseason Poll.<\/p>\n<p>Dickinson State (N.D.) got the final two first-place votes, collecting 30 points to finish second in the poll.<\/p>\n<p>Jamestown \u00a0finished third with 26 points.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0Valley City\u00a0 (CSi)\u00a0 The Valley City State University Vikings football team is in the Top 25 of the\u00a0 2015 NAIA Football Coaches Preseason\u00a0 Poll. VCSU is ranked the 17th best team across the NAIA and the only team ranked in the top 25 from the North Star Athletic Association.\u00a0 Southern [&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-78854","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\/78854","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=78854"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78854\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":78861,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78854\/revisions\/78861"}],"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=78854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=78854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=78854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}