{"id":184708,"date":"2026-02-19T15:35:34","date_gmt":"2026-02-19T15:35:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/184708\/"},"modified":"2026-02-19T15:35:34","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T15:35:34","slug":"why-would-sacramento-state-spend-tens-of-millions-to-join-the-mac-it-is-putting-the-university-on-the-map-yahoo-sports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/184708\/","title":{"rendered":"Why would Sacramento State spend tens of millions to join the MAC? &#039;It is putting the university on the map&#039; &#8211; Yahoo Sports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMi_wFBVV95cUxPUENFRjROWU0zY0E4clQtWE53TjBrRGswUmJ6M0NocHhzbDIzZ21lX3ZXQnFhU2lXSHk0WGxCa1VncDdoQVR6SGtjeWVnT2NEOE9UaHUwWm82LUR2djZpUlIzcmVveHZHTnZLU3hpZlkweWh1VWpMcUEyZ2tLc1VzUUo2Rjg1TUNVYlBkdEN2ZDlxazNlU0NFQ3BwcWNZWjBjYnR5Y2xydWRHYm9ZOG41WkUtWm5zd215S0xqeDRuTDY1cUxVYnRKN0R1RVBTOGs2emZIVVdFTm0tVFFGQ2tHUGxLa1BGaDlCT1Y3STh6eHkzRTdrR1JabFJ5R2gweGM?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Why would Sacramento State spend tens of millions to join the MAC? &#8216;It is putting the university on the map&#8217;<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;Yahoo Sports<a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMiuAFBVV95cUxNRWpPcmNEallSNWdmWW1qaVRwb1VybHlaZW41V194cmQ4LTJma1RRcGpwQTE2VVppY3VqX3d3V01YSkVWWFl1RWYzOFRScFZxTmZQNmZ5QnZJWE1kU2F4ckJHSkVkX0xub25BblhYQkZOOWV0SzgxQS1oQ2dPNUxDd1FlUDhrS0Z2M0Y2N0RtNVZWbHVxSzZzbC16dGlmdHlVbE5VUV9UY0gzbGZzekdmbnVHUTNZU1Jm?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Sacramento State Joins Mid-American Conference as Football-Only Member<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;Mid-American Conference<a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMi1AFBVV95cUxOb0ZzMWFiU3BJRWtDQUgtZkE0UVFucmRFMzVtTHVxNjFmM1NSU0U3aW05UWJtUldVaEhaazd1ZnRsVDlnZ3Nhd0I5U09XZEVSRDNEdEpsUVN1MUFwaWxUbzFpR3FudjVRLW4tc3dwVGNIRnh5aG1yRkdkcUozZDBpQ3RLV3BxY09UQ1ZYTl9KSE9BaWdVMXlOalpNTkF4eGN5WUZ5NUZTOGUyTGEyQ2lULW9jcVY5WlhIaU1sSUQ4RTM1ZzRBNGt0UzVQQ2JjQXFiRGpWVA?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">California\u2019s capital is getting FBS football: Economics expert weighs in on Sac State&#8217;s move to the MAC<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;KCRA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Why would Sacramento State spend tens of millions to join the MAC? &#8216;It is putting the university on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":15975,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[121,123,122],"class_list":{"0":"post-184708","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sacramento","8":"tag-sacramento","9":"tag-sacramento-headlines","10":"tag-sacramento-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184708","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=184708"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184708\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15975"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}