{"id":18696,"date":"2012-07-23T04:07:26","date_gmt":"2012-07-23T09:07:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/utnews.utoledo.edu\/?p=18696"},"modified":"2012-07-20T15:00:48","modified_gmt":"2012-07-20T20:00:48","slug":"rockets-to-host-eastern-washington-in-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/07_23_2012\/rockets-to-host-eastern-washington-in-2013","title":{"rendered":"Rockets to host Eastern Washington in 2013"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The University of Toledo will host Eastern Washington in football Sept. 14, 2013. It will be the first meeting between the two schools.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Rocket-football-logo1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Rocket-football-logo1.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Rocket football logo\" width=\"300\" height=\"174\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-18720\" \/><\/a>Eastern Washington is an NCAA Division I school competing in the Football Championship Subdivision (FCS). The Eagles were 6-5 in 2011, following a 2010 season when they went 13-2 and defeated Delaware, 20-19, to claim the FCS national championship.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are very pleased to add Eastern Washington to our 2013 home football schedule,&#8221; said UT Vice President and Athletic Director Mike O&#8217;Brien. &#8220;The Eagles have one of the premier programs in the FCS, so we are looking forward to hosting them in the Glass Bowl.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Eastern Washington is an outstanding FCS program that will provide a definite challenge for our team,&#8221; added Head Coach Matt Campbell. &#8220;We have a lot of respect for Coach Beau Baldwin and the job he and his staff have done.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The EWU game completes the 2013 non-conference schedule. The Rockets also will host Navy Oct. 19 and travel to Florida Aug. 31 and Missouri Sept. 7.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Toledo football team will face Eastern Washington in 2013.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,7],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18696"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18696"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18696\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}