{"id":5355,"date":"2014-10-07T10:00:30","date_gmt":"2014-10-07T15:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/?p=5355"},"modified":"2014-10-05T11:55:56","modified_gmt":"2014-10-05T16:55:56","slug":"college-gameday-in-mississippi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2014\/10\/college-gameday-in-mississippi\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;College GameDay&#8217; in Mississippi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last week, ESPN&#8217;s &#8220;College GameDay&#8221; went to the Grove in Oxford, Miss., for the first time ever \u2014 and was there for Ole Miss to beat Alabama. This week, GameDay is staying in-state and going to Starkville for Mississippi State vs. Auburn. This will complete the cycle for <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Locations_of_College_GameDay_(football)\">GameDay visits to SEC campuses,<\/a> although the visit to Missouri was during the Big 12 era.<\/p>\n<p>These visits remove two names from a sad list: Power-conference teams that have neither hosted GameDay nor been an opponent at one of those games. Who&#8217;s on this list? Iowa State, of course.\u00a0Also Baylor, Duke, Indiana, Maryland, Minnesota, Rutgers, and Wake Forest. (While Baylor is good right now, the Big 12&#8217;s Fox contract works against it.)<\/p>\n<p>Of those, Baylor, Duke, Indiana, and Maryland have hosted a <em>basketball<\/em> GameDay. With ISU-Kansas stuck dead in the middle of January this year, the outlook is cloudy for that. (And make no mistake \u2014 that game would be the <em>only<\/em> time GameDay would think about coming to Hilton.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week, ESPN&#8217;s &#8220;College GameDay&#8221; went to the Grove in Oxford, Miss., for the first time ever \u2014 and was there for Ole Miss to beat Alabama. This week, GameDay is staying in-state and going to Starkville for Mississippi State &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2014\/10\/college-gameday-in-mississippi\/\">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-5355","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5355","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=5355"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5355\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5356,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5355\/revisions\/5356"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}