{"id":1740256,"date":"2022-08-15T21:02:17","date_gmt":"2022-08-16T01:02:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=1740256"},"modified":"2022-08-15T21:02:17","modified_gmt":"2022-08-16T01:02:17","slug":"motivated-alabama-to-open-no-1-for-ninth-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=1740256","title":{"rendered":"Motivated Alabama to open No. 1 for ninth time"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"ftpimagefix\" style=\"float:left\"><a class=\"colorbox\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/news\/2022\/aug\/15\/motivated-alabama-open-no-1-ninth-time\/?utm_source=RSS_Feed&amp;utm_medium=RSS\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/twt-thumbs.washtimes.com\/media\/image\/2022\/08\/15\/College_Football_Poll_1_10699.jpg-01cfe_s1440x1042.jpg?9177f8ee2f23e888a10cf1e3ade38be86f1397e0\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p>With two of the best players in the country leading the way &#8212; and a championship game loss as motivation &#8212; Alabama is No. 1 in The Associated Press preseason college football poll for the second straight season and ninth time overall. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/news\/2022\/aug\/15\/motivated-alabama-open-no-1-ninth-time\/?utm_source=RSS_Feed&amp;utm_medium=RSS\" class=\"colorbox\" id=\"rssmi_more\"> &#8230;read more<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Source:: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/news\/2022\/aug\/15\/motivated-alabama-open-no-1-ninth-time\/?utm_source=RSS_Feed&amp;utm_medium=RSS\" class=\"colorbox\" title=\"Motivated Alabama to open No. 1 for ninth time\">Washington Times<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With two of the best players in the country leading the way &#8212; and a championship game loss as motivation &#8212; Alabama is No. 1&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[79],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1740256","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured-stories","wpcat-79-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1740256","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1740256"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1740256\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1740256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1740256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1740256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}