{"id":605,"date":"2004-09-17T10:27:42","date_gmt":"2004-09-17T15:27:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/?p=605"},"modified":"2004-09-17T10:27:42","modified_gmt":"2004-09-17T15:27:42","slug":"west-virginia-national-champion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/?p=605","title":{"rendered":"West Virginia: National Champion?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image604\" alt=\"wv.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/09\/wv.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_top\" href=\"http:\/\/www.wvu.edu\/\">West Virginia<\/a> is my pick for this years Nation Champion. They have the running game, the quarterback, and more importantly the schedule. Much like the 2002 <a target=\"_top\" href=\"http:\/\/www.osu.edu\/\">Ohio State Buckeye&#8217;s<\/a>, West Virginia has the perfect schedule to make a run for the title. West Virginia has rolled over thier first two oponents and tomorrow&#8217;s battle with<a target=\"_top\" href=\"http:\/\/%20www.umd.edu\/\">Maryland<\/a> will be a coming out party for Rich Rodriguez and the Mountaniers. Thier only tough game is with Virginia Tech (who jumped ship to the ACC) and the season ending &#8220;Backyard Brawl&#8221; against Pitt on Thanksgivings Day at 8:00pm.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile I&#8217;m off to see the once proud <a target=\"_top\" href=\"http:\/\/www.psu.edu\/\">Nittany Lions<\/a> do battle against <a target=\"_top\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/\">UCF<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>West Virginia is my pick for this years Nation Champion. They have the running game, the quarterback, and more importantly the schedule. Much like the 2002 Ohio State Buckeye&#8217;s, West Virginia has the perfect schedule to make a run for the title. West Virginia has rolled over thier first two oponents and tomorrow&#8217;s battle withMaryland [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[17],"tags":[103],"class_list":["post-605","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports","tag-college-football"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pazIS5-9L","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/605","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=605"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/605\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}