{"id":383862,"date":"2017-09-04T15:42:26","date_gmt":"2017-09-04T21:42:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/?p=383862"},"modified":"2017-09-04T15:48:48","modified_gmt":"2017-09-04T21:48:48","slug":"acc-may-not-be-the-greatest-just-yet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/acc-may-not-be-the-greatest-just-yet\/","title":{"rendered":"ACC may not be the greatest just yet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/TightenUp-9-4.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-large wp-image-383872\" src=\"http:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/TightenUp-9-4-1024x384.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"384\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It was only opening weekend, but if the Atlantic Coast Conference wants to be known as the standard bearer for college football they had better tighten up.<br \/>\nBoth Jimbo Fisher and Dabo Swinney said at ACC Media Days that there was no question which conference was the best in college football.<br \/>\nThis just in: The ACC is 0-2 against the SEC so far this season.<br \/>\nIn a matchup of the top-ranked team from each conference, Alabama handled Florida State in a game that was pretty demoralizing for the Seminoles.<br \/>\nIn the other ACC-SEC matchup, North Carolina State (a trendy pick to make the playoff this season) lost to middle-of-the-pack SEC East team South Carolina.<br \/>\nThe ACC also had a bad loss by North Carolina to California and an overtime squeaker by Pittsburgh over Youngstown State.<br \/>\nThe ACC did get a thrilling win by Virginia Tech over West Virginia Sunday night and will have a chance to exact a little revenge on the SEC tonight when Georgia Tech faces Tennessee.<br \/>\nBut to this point in the season, the self-proclaimed best conference in college football needs to Tighten Up.<br \/>\nFor Threaded Fasteners, I\u2019m Randy Kennedy with Tighten Up.<\/p>\n<!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('audio');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-383862-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/TightenUp090417.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/TightenUp090417.mp3\">http:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/TightenUp090417.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>It was only opening weekend, but if the Atlantic Coast Conference wants to be known as the standard bearer for college football they had better <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/acc-may-not-be-the-greatest-just-yet\/\" title=\"ACC may not be the greatest just yet\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":4489,"featured_media":0,"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":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-383862","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-home"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383862","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\/4489"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=383862"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383862\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":383874,"href":"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383862\/revisions\/383874"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=383862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=383862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=383862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}