{"id":158964,"date":"2025-06-26T03:07:08","date_gmt":"2025-06-26T03:07:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/158964\/"},"modified":"2025-06-26T03:07:08","modified_gmt":"2025-06-26T03:07:08","slug":"we-will-play-fbs-football-in-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/158964\/","title":{"rendered":"We will play FBS football in 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a message posted to Twitter on Wednesday, Sac State president Dr. Luke Wood vowed that not only will the Hornets play FBS football, they&#8217;ll do it in 2026. He claimed Sacramento State met every &#8220;meaningful&#8221; benchmark to make the move.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Sacramento State has met every meaningful benchmark for FBS membership, and we believe our university, our students, and the entire Sacramento region deserve major college football. We\u2019re full steam ahead and we still plan to be playing \u00a0FBS football in 2026,&#8221; Wood tweeted.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Sacramento State has met every meaningful benchmark for FBS membership, and we believe our university, our students, and the entire Sacramento region deserve major college football. We\u2019re full steam ahead and we still plan to be playing FBS football in 2026. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/NoEcQ7EmyG\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/NoEcQ7EmyG<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Dr. Luke Wood (@DrLukeWood) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DrLukeWood\/status\/1937900093858087319?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">June 25, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<p>If the Pac-12 or Mountain West was going to invite the Hornets, they would have done so by now. Therefore, I have no idea how Sac State plans to build an FBS independent schedule to begin barely more than one year from now, but I&#8217;ll be fascinated to see them try.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In a message posted to Twitter on Wednesday, Sac State president Dr. Luke Wood vowed that not only&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":158965,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2026],"tags":[7,88,35771],"class_list":{"0":"post-158964","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-football","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-sacramento-state-football"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158964","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=158964"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158964\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/158965"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=158964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=158964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=158964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}