{"id":1184331,"date":"2026-05-22T08:34:04","date_gmt":"2026-05-22T14:34:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/?p=1184331"},"modified":"2026-05-22T08:35:03","modified_gmt":"2026-05-22T14:35:03","slug":"this-week-marks-100-days-until-college-football-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/this-week-marks-100-days-until-college-football-season\/","title":{"rendered":"This Week Marks 100 Days Until College Football Season!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As the weather heats up in the Yellowhammer State and we become further and further removed from the dark and cold winter with the calendar set to officially become summer,\u00a0there\u2019s one thing on the minds\u00a0of most across the South.<\/p>\n<p>The end of spring and start of summer means we are inching closer and closer to the start of everyone\u2019s favorite season; early fall and the start of college football for the\u00a0Alabama Crimson Tide,\u00a0Auburn Tigers\u00a0and the rest of the SEC.<\/p>\n<p>In fact, this week marked exactly 100 days until the start of the season which will feature several exciting Week 0 matchups on August 29 before the SEC puts to to leather on September 5.<\/p>\n<div class=\"embed-twitter\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">100 DAYS UNTIL COLLEGE FOOTBALL RETURNS\ud83c\udf7f <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/nrGIFTPsk3\">pic.twitter.com\/nrGIFTPsk3<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 On3 (@On3) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/On3\/status\/2057446338111971558?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 21, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>While there may not be a ton of extremely intriguing matchups in that first week of the season as a large portion of the conference hosts non-power four teams, Auburn will take on Baylor while several teams in the conference have tough showdowns including LSU hosting Clemson in a rematch of last year\u2019s week one game to kick off the Lane Kiffin era in Baton Rouge.<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s still a long and hot summer to get through, but fans can officially start counting down the days, because college football is a whole lot closer than it may seem right now.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>As the weather heats up in the Yellowhammer State and we become further and further removed from the dark and cold winter with the calendar <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/this-week-marks-100-days-until-college-football-season\/\" title=\"This Week Marks 100 Days Until College Football Season!\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":4874,"featured_media":1183800,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[91,8,10,145,147],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1184331","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-alabama","8":"category-crimson-tide-bama-tide","9":"category-tigers-plains-war-eagle","10":"category-auburn","11":"category-featured-news"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/5062601010270tc_rosebowl.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1184331","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4874"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1184331"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1184331\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1184333,"href":"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1184331\/revisions\/1184333"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1183800"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1184331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1184331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1184331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}