{"id":5364,"date":"2014-10-10T10:05:47","date_gmt":"2014-10-10T15:05:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/?p=5364"},"modified":"2014-10-10T01:17:33","modified_gmt":"2014-10-10T06:17:33","slug":"unique-homecoming-at-isu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2014\/10\/unique-homecoming-at-isu\/","title":{"rendered":"Unique Homecoming at ISU"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Because of some creative scheduling for TV contracts, Iowa State will be playing a non-conference game for Homecoming this year. According to the ISU media guide, Toledo is only the second non-conference Homecoming opponent in nearly a century and sixth since the first Homecoming in 1912.<\/p>\n<p>In 1986, Wyoming was the opponent, but it was the fourth game of the year and third home game in an 11-game schedule.\u00a0Otherwise, the last non-conference Homecoming opponent was Iowa in 1920, and that was the <em>last<\/em> game of the season, possibly due to Nebraska <a href=\"http:\/\/jonfmorse.com\/wiki\/index.php?title=1920_Missouri_Valley_Intercollegiate_Athletic_Association_Football\">technically being an independent that year<\/a>. Iowa was also a non-conference Homecoming game in 1912 (the first), &#8217;14, and &#8217;16, all three times the second-to-last game of the year in November.<\/p>\n<p>UPDATE: <a href=\"https:\/\/espn.go.com\/blog\/big12\/post\/_\/id\/90616\/new-iowa-state-gold-uniform-gets-thumbs-up-from-mcdonalds\">They&#8217;re wearing <em>what<\/em>?!?<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Because of some creative scheduling for TV contracts, Iowa State will be playing a non-conference game for Homecoming this year. According to the ISU media guide, Toledo is only the second non-conference Homecoming opponent in nearly a century and sixth &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2014\/10\/unique-homecoming-at-isu\/\">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-5364","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5364","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=5364"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5364\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5374,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5364\/revisions\/5374"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}