{"id":7077,"date":"2017-11-24T17:09:06","date_gmt":"2017-11-24T22:09:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/2017\/12\/04\/furman-travels-to-wofford-for-second-round-of-ncaa-playoffs\/"},"modified":"2022-11-06T20:19:53","modified_gmt":"2022-11-07T01:19:53","slug":"furman-travels-to-wofford-for-second-round-of-ncaa-playoffs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/furman-travels-to-wofford-for-second-round-of-ncaa-playoffs\/","title":{"rendered":"Furman travels to Wofford Saturday for second round of NCAA playoffs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After starting the season 0-3, Clay Hendrix wasn\u2019t thinking about winning streaks or NCAA playoff games. The first-year head football coach says he was more concerned with the Paladins getting their first victory.<\/p>\n<p>But once the Paladins did win, which occurred dramatically in week four against Colgate (45-14), it\u2019s been a season for the record books. Furman won seven of its last eight regular season games, qualified for the FCS playoffs and then defeated Elon on the road last Saturday, 28-27, in the tournament\u2019s first round.<\/p>\n<p>The Paladins avenged an earlier loss against the Phoenix, who had defeated the Paladins, 34-31, in Greenville in week two of the season. Now, for their second-round game this Saturday, the Paladins travel to Wofford to face a team that beat them 24-23 in the season&#8217;s first game.<\/p>\n<p>Furman and Wofford have battled twice in a season five times over the years but never with more at stake than this coming Saturday. The game begins at 2 p.m. at Wofford\u2019s Gibbs Stadium, and ticket information is available <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.furmanpaladins.com\/sports\/tickets\/landing\">here<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Read more at <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/furmanpaladins.com\/sports\/m-footbl\/2017-18\/releases\/20171129ebk0d8\">furmanpaladins.com<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After starting the season 0-3, Clay Hendrix wasn\u2019t thinking about winning streaks or NCAA playoff games. The first-year head football coach says he was more concerned with the Paladins getting [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":265,"featured_media":17611,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7077","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7077","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/265"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7077"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7077\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17611"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}