{"id":2588,"date":"2012-11-18T09:38:43","date_gmt":"2012-11-18T15:38:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/?p=2588"},"modified":"2012-11-18T09:53:58","modified_gmt":"2012-11-18T15:53:58","slug":"the-big-12-circular-firing-squad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2012\/11\/the-big-12-circular-firing-squad\/","title":{"rendered":"The Big 12 circular firing squad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sportsillustrated.cnn.com\/football\/ncaa\/gameflash\/2012\/11\/17\/50576\/index.html?sct=cf_t11_a3#recap\">is alive and well.<\/a>\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.kcur.org\/post\/fans-notes-jinx\">So is the Sports Illustrated cover jinx.<\/a> (Note first, that person wrote <em>before<\/em> the game, and second, that the cover explicitly invokes the jinx in case of a Kansas State loss.)<\/p>\n<p>Two &#8220;bottom feeders&#8221; of the Big 12 have, in successive years, derailed a potential national championship berth for a team that&#8217;s never won it all and opened the door for <em>\u2014 of all teams!<\/em> \u2014 Alabama. And this time, Notre Dame too.<\/p>\n<p>The universe has an odd, odd sense of humor.<\/p>\n<p>In semi-related news, Iowa State won its sixth game of the year Saturday, ensuring a trip to lovely \u2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sbnation.com\/college-football\/2012\/11\/18\/3660588\/bcs-standings-2012-week-13-alabama-georgia-notre-dame\"><em>Shreveport?<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>is alive and well.\u00a0So is the Sports Illustrated cover jinx. (Note first, that person wrote before the game, and second, that the cover explicitly invokes the jinx in case of a Kansas State loss.) Two &#8220;bottom feeders&#8221; of the Big &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2012\/11\/the-big-12-circular-firing-squad\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2588","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2588","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2588"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2588\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2592,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2588\/revisions\/2592"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}