{"id":1943277,"date":"2026-11-10T06:03:16","date_gmt":"2026-11-10T11:03:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=1943277"},"modified":"2026-11-10T07:55:48","modified_gmt":"2026-11-10T12:55:48","slug":"juju-watkins-returns-as-south-carolina-and-usc-meet-again-in-a-fast-growing-rivalry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=1943277","title":{"rendered":"JuJu Watkins returns as South Carolina and USC meet again in a fast-growing rivalry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>No. 1 South Carolina will face third-ranked USC on Sunday for the third time in the past 12 months. The Gamecocks won the first two meetings, including an NCAA Tournament victory last season in the second round. The Trojans will have JuJu Watkins back in the lineup though this time as the sensati&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wral.com\/news\/ap\/00bf1-juju-watkins-returns-as-south-carolina-and-usc-meet-again-in-a-fast-growing-rivalry\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Click here to read the full article<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No. 1 South Carolina will face third-ranked USC on Sunday for the third time in the past 12 months. The Gamecocks won the first two meetings,&#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":[],"class_list":["post-1943277","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\/1943277","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=1943277"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1943277\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1943280,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1943277\/revisions\/1943280"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1943277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1943277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1943277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}