{"id":428380,"date":"2025-12-06T08:21:21","date_gmt":"2025-12-06T08:21:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/428380\/"},"modified":"2025-12-06T08:21:21","modified_gmt":"2025-12-06T08:21:21","slug":"sweet-redemption-kennesaw-state-beats-jacksonville-state-in-conference-title-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/428380\/","title":{"rendered":"Sweet redemption: Kennesaw State beats Jacksonville State in conference title game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Owls have seen massive success this season under the new head coach Jerry Mack.<\/p>\n<p>JACKSONVILLE, Ala. \u2014 The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.11alive.com\/article\/sports\/kennesaw-state-double-ot-cusa-championship-rematch-jacksonville-state\/85-c373fc7a-7a4f-4b85-9c52-e91ec5229207\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Kennesaw State Owls<\/a> won its first-ever Conference USA championship, defeating the Jacksonville State Gamecocks 19-15.<\/p>\n<p>The win is also a bit of redemption this time around. The Owls lost to the Gamecocks 35-26 in their Nov. 15 matchup this season.<\/p>\n<p>Kennesaw State did an about-face this season, with 10 wins and 3 losses. That&#8217;s a complete change from last season, when the Owls only won two matchups. The success this year comes under Head Coach Jerry Mack &#8212; his first season leading the Owls.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>They are also bowl eligible for the first time.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>This is also the team&#8217;s second season of playing FBS football.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Owls have seen massive success this season under the new head coach Jerry Mack. JACKSONVILLE, Ala. \u2014&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":428381,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5136],"tags":[5229,3188,723,7310,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-428380","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-jacksonville","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-fl","10":"tag-florida","11":"tag-jacksonville","12":"tag-united-states","13":"tag-united-states-of-america","14":"tag-unitedstates","15":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","16":"tag-us","17":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115671655123326078","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428380","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=428380"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428380\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/428381"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=428380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=428380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=428380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}