{"id":1940338,"date":"2026-10-26T14:08:12","date_gmt":"2026-10-26T18:08:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=1940338"},"modified":"2026-10-26T14:12:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-26T18:12:09","slug":"south-carolina-is-the-sec-favorite-but-texas-vandy-and-lsu-hope-to-crash-the-party","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=1940338","title":{"rendered":"South Carolina is the SEC favorite, but Texas, Vandy and LSU hope to crash the party"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dawn Staley believes her South Carolina Gamecocks don&#8217;t need major physical changes this season. The team, ranked No. 1, has the talent to win a fourth national title. Staley says the focus should be on mental strength, as recent championship losses have been challenging. The Gamecocks have reach&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wral.com\/news\/ap\/10475-south-carolina-is-the-sec-favorite-but-texas-vandy-and-lsu-hope-to-crash-the-party\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Click here to read the full article<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dawn Staley believes her South Carolina Gamecocks don&#8217;t need major physical changes this season. The team, ranked No. 1, has the talent to win a fourth&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"Default","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[79],"tags":[117,118,114,115,119,116,120,121],"class_list":["post-1940338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured-stories","tag-barcelona","tag-bayern","tag-cricket","tag-india","tag-madrid","tag-pakistan","tag-lanka","tag-odi","wpcat-79-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1940338","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\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1940338"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1940338\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1940339,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1940338\/revisions\/1940339"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1940338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1940338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1940338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}