{"id":31150,"date":"2004-06-23T06:09:00","date_gmt":"2004-06-23T10:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.yurasko.net\/wfy\/?p=31150"},"modified":"2004-06-23T06:09:00","modified_gmt":"2004-06-23T10:09:00","slug":"only-54-days-until-kickoff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yurasko.net\/wfy\/2004\/06\/only-54-days-until-kickoff\/","title":{"rendered":"ONLY 54 DAYS UNTIL KICKOFF"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I love summer as much as anyone, but having <b>Penn State football<\/b> to look forward to certainly takes away the sting of shorter days and cooler weather that arrives in September.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><b>Ron Bracken<\/b> &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20080704081725\/http:\/\/www.centredaily.com\/mld\/centredaily\/9130455.htm\"><b>Preseason prognosticators forecasting big year for Mountaineers<\/b><\/a> &#8211; <i>CDT<\/i><br><br>Longtime chronicler of Penn State football, <b>Ron Bracken<\/b> looks at the high pre-season rankings for West Virginia and laments that they do not play Penn State and joins the chorus criticizing the Lions being in the Big11Ten. 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