{"id":3206,"date":"2017-02-16T20:39:11","date_gmt":"2017-02-17T01:39:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/?p=3206"},"modified":"2017-02-16T20:39:11","modified_gmt":"2017-02-17T01:39:11","slug":"liberty-university-gets-approval-to-start-the-fbs-reclassification-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/?p=3206","title":{"rendered":"Liberty University gets approval to start the FBS reclassification program"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The NCAA has approved Liberty University&#8217;s waiver request for the Football Bowl Subdivision reclassification process.  <\/p>\n<p>The university got the notification today after submitting a waiver in January.  <\/p>\n<p>Starting with the 2017-18 year, Liberty&#8217;s football program will start the FBS reclassification process.  <\/p>\n<p>Liberty will compete as a FBS independent during the 2018 season, and be bowl eligible in the 2019 season.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The NCAA has approved Liberty University&#8217;s waiver request for the Football Bowl Subdivision reclassification process. The university got the notification today after submitting a waiver&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/?p=3206\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Liberty University gets approval to start the FBS reclassification program<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":2658,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/image2.jpeg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pJcR0-PI","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3206","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3206"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3206\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2658"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}