{"id":10096,"date":"2018-01-02T07:22:50","date_gmt":"2018-01-02T12:22:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jmusportsblog.com\/?p=10096"},"modified":"2018-01-02T16:20:04","modified_gmt":"2018-01-02T21:20:04","slug":"championship-week-is-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jmusportsblog.com\/?p=10096","title":{"rendered":"Championship Week Is Here"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><img data-attachment-id=\"9577\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/jmusportsblog.com\/?attachment_id=9577\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/jmusportsblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/2017JMUFB_YS_170107_176.jpg?fit=1040%2C550&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1040,550\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;9&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;Canon EOS-1D X&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1483807742&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;67&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;800&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.00125&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"2016 FCS Champs\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/jmusportsblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/2017JMUFB_YS_170107_176.jpg?fit=300%2C159&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/jmusportsblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/2017JMUFB_YS_170107_176.jpg?fit=1024%2C542&amp;ssl=1\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-9577 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/jmusportsblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/2017JMUFB_YS_170107_176.jpg?resize=599%2C317\" alt=\"\" width=\"599\" height=\"317\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/jmusportsblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/2017JMUFB_YS_170107_176.jpg?resize=1024%2C542&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/jmusportsblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/2017JMUFB_YS_170107_176.jpg?resize=300%2C159&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/jmusportsblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/2017JMUFB_YS_170107_176.jpg?resize=768%2C406&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/jmusportsblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/2017JMUFB_YS_170107_176.jpg?w=1040&amp;ssl=1 1040w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 599px) 100vw, 599px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/>It&#8217;s finally here. Frisco Week. The FCS National Championship that we&#8217;ve all been anticipating for weeks (months?) is just days away. Our beloved JMU Dukes face off against the North Dakota Bison in 4 more days to decide who the best team in all of FCS is. And we couldn&#8217;t be more excited.<br \/>\nThings have been a little light around here content wise lately. Let us explain. First, as excited as we are about the big game, it was Christmas last week. (Perhaps you noticed.) The holidays bring all sorts of joy, and a little bit of stress too if we&#8217;re bing honest. While we fully admit this isn&#8217;t the world&#8217;s greatest blog (feel free to tell us why we&#8217;re wrong in the comments), we assure you it would be far worse if we didn&#8217;t at least try to take a step back and find some balance every now and again. The Christmas season is one of those times we choose to do that. We also had a nasty bout of the flu go through our NC and VA headquarters, which put us both down for the count for a few days.<br \/>\nRegardless, we&#8217;re alive and kicking and ready go now. We&#8217;re a little off schedule, but we&#8217;re treating this like any other game week. Tonight we&#8217;re recording a pod with our very first recurring guest. He was terrific the first time and we think y&#8217;all will love listening to him preview the game with us. We&#8217;ll also probably discuss travel plans for this weekend (or lack thereof in my case). Then we&#8217;ll have the prediction contest and our game preview on Thursday and Friday. If anything crazy pops up or we find ourselves with a bunch of free time, maybe we&#8217;ll sneak in one or two more posts. In any case, we hope you got some time to recharge over the past week or so. Now let&#8217;s get ready for the game.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<iframe src=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/like.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fjmusportsblog.com%2F%3Fp%3D10096&amp;layout=standard&amp;show_faces=true&amp;width=450&amp;action=like&amp;colorscheme=light&amp;height=80\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"border:none; overflow:hidden; width:450px; height:80px;\" allowTransparency=\"true\"><\/iframe>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s finally here. Frisco Week. The FCS National Championship that we&#8217;ve all been anticipating for weeks (months?) is just days away. Our beloved JMU Dukes face off against the North Dakota Bison in 4 more days to decide who the best team in all of FCS is. And we couldn&#8217;t be more excited. Things have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":9195,"url":"https:\/\/jmusportsblog.com\/?p=9195","url_meta":{"origin":10096,"position":0},"title":"This Guy Roots (or something)","date":"January 4, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"Look, we're pretty excited for Saturday's FCS National Championship. And we're very confident in the Dukes chances. But not as confident as one JMU student is. There's \"I think my team will probably win.\" sort of confidence. Then there's \"I'm so damn sure my team will win that I'm getting\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;JMU Football&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"natty-tattoo","src":"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/jmusportsblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/natty-tattoo.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":4014,"url":"https:\/\/jmusportsblog.com\/?p=4014","url_meta":{"origin":10096,"position":1},"title":"FCS Preseason Polls Are Worthless, but JMU is 5th in One","date":"June 17, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"I put very little stock in FCS rankings in the middle of the season, so to say that I'm slightly less than concerned with preseason rankings would be an understatement. 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That's more than any other conference.\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;JMU Football&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/jmusportsblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/5a398a73c677f.image_-1024x726.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":3156,"url":"https:\/\/jmusportsblog.com\/?p=3156","url_meta":{"origin":10096,"position":3},"title":"Guest Blogger: JMU Fandom &#038; The Window of Opportunity","date":"November 1, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"Kevin Lombard, a proud JMU alum, won last week's prediction contest and earned the right to post about whatever he'd like. Take it away Kevin. I\u2019ll start with the obligatory \u201cI\u2019d gladly trade my opportunity to write this blog entry for a Dukes victory last Saturday\u201d. 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