{"id":9196,"date":"2017-09-16T10:00:01","date_gmt":"2017-09-16T15:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/?p=9196"},"modified":"2017-09-15T01:24:54","modified_gmt":"2017-09-15T06:24:54","slug":"zipping-along","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2017\/09\/zipping-along\/","title":{"rendered":"Zipping along"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/akronstadium.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"337\" \/><em><strong>Sept. 30, 2013:<\/strong> InfoCision Stadium in Akron, Ohio.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Iowa State football&#8217;s occasional tour of the Mid-American Conference (NOT as an audition for membership, God willing) adds a never-before-visited location: Akron, Ohio. This is the tenth current MAC school ISU will play against, and the nice thing is it&#8217;s not Ohio or Kent State again. If ISU is going to do home-and-homes like this, it&#8217;s good to go to other places.<\/p>\n<p>ISU&#8217;s last appearance in the Buckeye State (4-2 all time) ended in an overtime loss through a missed field goal at Toledo in 2015. ISU and Toledo both beat two power-conference teams that year \u2014 Toledo beat ISU and Arkansas, ISU beat Kansas and Texas. It was the beginning of the end for Paul Rhoads.<\/p>\n<p>At the end of that season, in at least the second case of &#8220;if you can&#8217;t beat &#8217;em, buy &#8217;em&#8221; among power-conference teams this decade (Jerry Kill), ISU hired Toledo coach Matt Campbell.<\/p>\n<p>Saturday&#8217;s game is also the first for ISU football on CBS Sports Network.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sept. 30, 2013: InfoCision Stadium in Akron, Ohio. Iowa State football&#8217;s occasional tour of the Mid-American Conference (NOT as an audition for membership, God willing) adds a never-before-visited location: Akron, Ohio. This is the tenth current MAC school ISU will &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2017\/09\/zipping-along\/\">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-9196","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9196","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=9196"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9196\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9197,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9196\/revisions\/9197"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}