{"id":7207,"date":"2014-10-29T07:37:39","date_gmt":"2014-10-29T11:37:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jmusportsblog.com\/?p=7207"},"modified":"2014-10-29T07:37:39","modified_gmt":"2014-10-29T11:37:39","slug":"prediction-contest-jmu-vs-william-mary-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jmusportsblog.com\/?p=7207","title":{"rendered":"Prediction Contest: JMU vs. William &#038; Mary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/4Rfe2XyPP4s\" width=\"520\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe>JMU is playing William &amp; Mary on Saturday. The two schools are unquestionably rivals on the football fields. And they&#8217;re unquestionably different in just about every way possible. Take the video above, which is actual footage of William &amp; Mary students camping out in front of and then rushing into&#8230;the library during exam week. You just don&#8217;t see that at JMU. But differences like these are part of what makes the rivalry fun. We&#8217;ll all gather on Saturday. They&#8217;ll call us slackers and taunt us with &#8220;one day you&#8217;ll be working for us&#8221; chants. We&#8217;ll call them nerds. They&#8217;ll complain that the general public doesn&#8217;t give &#8220;the college&#8221; the respect it deserves as an academic elite (&#8220;It&#8217;s a Public Ivy dammit!&#8221;). We&#8217;ll bitch about JMU not going FBS.<em>\u00a0<\/em>Then JMU will win the game (hopefully) and they&#8217;ll head back to the lab or library, while JMU fans go celebrate. It&#8217;s quite fun.<\/p>\n<p>But before we get to that, we&#8217;d like to hear your predictions for the game. Leave a comment indicating which team you think will win and what the final score will be. The person who comes closest to nailing it (winner &amp; score) will get to write a guest post. Easy as pie.<\/p>\n<iframe src=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/like.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fjmusportsblog.com%2F%3Fp%3D7207&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>JMU is playing William &amp; Mary on Saturday. The two schools are unquestionably rivals on the football fields. And they&#8217;re unquestionably different in just about every way possible. Take the video above, which is actual footage of William &amp; Mary students camping out in front of and then rushing into&#8230;the library during exam week. You [&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":8938,"url":"https:\/\/jmusportsblog.com\/?p=8938","url_meta":{"origin":7207,"position":0},"title":"JMUSB Game Preview #6: William &#038; Mary at JMU","date":"October 6, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"Once again, it's time for the Dukes to welcome the boys from William & Mary to Harrisonburg. No matter if you call them the Tribe, the Indians, or the Pantsless Griffins, it's a big game and one we definitely circle on the calendar every year. 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