{"id":9565,"date":"2017-08-24T07:58:54","date_gmt":"2017-08-24T11:58:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jmusportsblog.com\/?p=9565"},"modified":"2017-08-24T19:59:03","modified_gmt":"2017-08-24T23:59:03","slug":"9565","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jmusportsblog.com\/?p=9565","title":{"rendered":"JMU Has the Best Football Program in Virginia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-attachment-id=\"9566\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/jmusportsblog.com\/?attachment_id=9566\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/jmusportsblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/map-football2.jpg?fit=878%2C462&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"878,462\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"map-football2\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/jmusportsblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/map-football2.jpg?fit=300%2C158&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/jmusportsblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/map-football2.jpg?fit=878%2C462&amp;ssl=1\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-9566\" src=\"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/jmusportsblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/map-football2.jpg?resize=597%2C314\" alt=\"map-football2\" width=\"597\" height=\"314\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/jmusportsblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/map-football2.jpg?w=878&amp;ssl=1 878w, https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/jmusportsblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/map-football2.jpg?resize=300%2C158&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/jmusportsblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/map-football2.jpg?resize=768%2C404&amp;ssl=1 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 597px) 100vw, 597px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/>This isn&#8217;t exactly breaking news, because we&#8217;ve been saying it for year, but now it&#8217;s official. Hero Sports has declared JMU the best football program in the Commonwealth of Virginia. You can <a href=\"http:\/\/herosports.com\/college-football\/best-college-football-teams-by-state-2017-a7a7\">go to the site<\/a> to read all about the methodology used, but in a nut shell, it&#8217;s purely scientific and JMU crushes.<\/p>\n<p>JMU is in select company with other top P5 teams from across the country such as Stanford, Clemson, and Florida State. As well as some successful, but lesser know teams such as Linfield and Mary Hardin-Baylor. So when you take a step back and view everything in context, it makes total sense. But it&#8217;s really more fun to just ignore everything else and focus on the fact that JMU is better than UVA, VA Tech, RU, ODU, and William &amp; Mary.<\/p>\n<iframe src=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/like.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fjmusportsblog.com%2F%3Fp%3D9565&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>This isn&#8217;t exactly breaking news, because we&#8217;ve been saying it for year, but now it&#8217;s official. Hero Sports has declared JMU the best football program in the Commonwealth of Virginia. You can go to the site to read all about the methodology used, but in a nut shell, it&#8217;s purely scientific and JMU crushes. JMU [&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":10476,"url":"https:\/\/jmusportsblog.com\/?p=10476","url_meta":{"origin":9565,"position":0},"title":"Guest Post: JMU Football is the Best in the State of Virginia","date":"September 26, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"Deacon Danny won last week's prediction contest by coming closest to the 51-0 final score in JMU's big win over William & Mary. Here he makes the case for JMU being the best team in the Commonwealth of Virginia. Enjoy! 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