{"id":1422,"date":"2017-01-09T09:08:11","date_gmt":"2017-01-09T05:08:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/?p=1422"},"modified":"2017-01-09T09:08:11","modified_gmt":"2017-01-09T05:08:11","slug":"cfp-championship-tonight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/?p=1422","title":{"rendered":"CFP Championship tonight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve said it before&#8230; this is the football equivalent of March Madness.<\/p>\n<p>We didn&#8217;t exactly see any buzzer beaters in the weekend&#8217;s NFL matchups\u2014more like some lopsided 16 vs. 1 games. Tonight, though, should be different, with a rematch of last year&#8217;s more-than-entertaining College Football Playoff National Championship (is that what it&#8217;s called?) game from Tampa, Florida. Both the Clemson Tigers and Alabama Crimson Tide won their semifinal games last week with stingy defense, hardly portending the 45-40-type game we saw last year.<\/p>\n<p>Alabama is going for its ridiculous fifth national title in eight years. Call me a spoilsport but I hope they don&#8217;t get it. Having no particular allegiance to either team I simply want to see something different.<\/p>\n<p>Go, Clemson!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve said it before&#8230; this is the football equivalent of March Madness. We didn&#8217;t exactly see any buzzer beaters in the weekend&#8217;s NFL matchups\u2014more like some lopsided 16 vs. 1 games. Tonight, though, should be different, with a rematch of &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/?p=1422\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1422","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1422","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1422"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1422\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1423,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1422\/revisions\/1423"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}