{"id":394892,"date":"2024-05-18T01:26:34","date_gmt":"2024-05-18T01:26:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=394892"},"modified":"2024-05-18T02:04:14","modified_gmt":"2024-05-18T02:04:14","slug":"west-virginia-implements-new-football-rules-for-this-fall-and-theyre-pretty-pretty-good","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=394892","title":{"rendered":"West Virginia implements new football rules for this fall (and they&#039;re pretty, pretty good)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wvssac.org\/\">West Virginia Secondary School Activities Commission<\/a> (WVSSAC) unanimously passed two common-sense proposals this week.<\/p>\n<p>The first rule is for points given to a team for a win. A previous rule stated that teams could only get bonus points if they defeated a team from the same or higher designation. The new rule now says that a team will earn a point regardless of the opponent&#8217;s classification.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wchstv.com\/sports\/top-sports\/wvssac-approves-changes-to-ranking-system-game-shortening-rule-for-high-school-football\">WCHS<\/a>, an ABC affiliate in the state, notes that the ranking system for wins remains unchanged meaning that &#8220;Class AAAA teams will be valued at 15 points, Class AAA at 12, Class AA at 9 points and Class A at 6 points.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>But the biggest and most important change involves blowout games.<\/p>\n<p>If a team reaches a 42-point margin by the third quarter, t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/photo\/?fbid=825794719591589&amp;set=a.456622319842166\">hen a rolling clock automatically begins<\/a>. WCHS notes that &#8220;The fourth quarter margin of 35 points remains the same.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Both rules will be in place for this upcoming fall season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Two new rules for high school football games this fall in West Virginia.<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":286601,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394892"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=394892"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394892\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":394893,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394892\/revisions\/394893"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/286601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=394892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=394892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=394892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}