{"id":432997,"date":"2018-04-13T10:41:03","date_gmt":"2018-04-13T16:41:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/?p=432997"},"modified":"2018-04-13T10:41:03","modified_gmt":"2018-04-13T16:41:03","slug":"the-state-champion-in-college-football-is-not-who-you-think","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/the-state-champion-in-college-football-is-not-who-you-think\/","title":{"rendered":"The state champion in college football is not who you think"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/NutsBolts041318.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-large wp-image-433000\" src=\"http:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/NutsBolts041318-1024x384.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"384\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Former Auburn kicker Daniel Carlson, a great guy by all accounts, made a public comment this week about the Tigers\u2019 season and how it stacked up against rival Alabama.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They might be national champs, but I&#8217;d say we&#8217;re state champs. We&#8217;ll take what we can get.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The comment was innocent enough. After all, Auburn did beat No. 1 Alabama (not to mention No. 1 Georgia) during the regular season.<br \/>\nSo there are certainly some things for Carlson and the Tigers to brag about &#8212; but one of those things is not being state champions.<\/p>\n<p>Not that anyone is interested in crowning a state champion in college football, but if they were there would be two possible methods.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>One: a vote. Under that method the title would go to the same team that won the national championship, Alabama.<\/li>\n<li>Two: strictly based on results on the field. Using that criteria, the Alabama state college football champions for 2017 would be the South Alabama Jaguars.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The Jaguars beat Troy 19-8 and Alabama A&amp;M 45-0. South Alabama was the only Division I state team that won more than one game against in-state foes.<\/p>\n<p>South Alabama was 2-0. Auburn and UAB went 1-0. Troy went 1-1. And Alabama was 0-1.<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s a reason why we don\u2019t try to crown state champions in college football.<br \/>\nFor Threaded Fasteners, I\u2019m Randy Kennedy with Nuts and Bolts of the Game.<\/p>\n<!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('audio');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-432997-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/NutsBolts041318.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/NutsBolts041318.mp3\">http:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/NutsBolts041318.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Former Auburn kicker Daniel Carlson, a great guy by all accounts, made a public comment this week about the Tigers\u2019 season and how it stacked <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/the-state-champion-in-college-football-is-not-who-you-think\/\" title=\"The state champion in college football is not who you think\">[&#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":[145,10,161,106,151,176],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-432997","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-auburn","7":"category-tigers-plains-war-eagle","8":"category-nuts-and-bolts","9":"category-on-the-air","10":"category-south-alabama","11":"category-top"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432997","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=432997"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432997\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":433001,"href":"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432997\/revisions\/433001"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=432997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=432997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=432997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}