{"id":456695,"date":"2026-09-08T00:20:08","date_gmt":"2026-09-08T00:20:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/456695\/"},"modified":"2026-09-08T00:20:08","modified_gmt":"2026-09-08T00:20:08","slug":"espn-radio-host-explains-why-bulldog-loss-to-usc-was","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/456695\/","title":{"rendered":"ESPN Radio host explains why Bulldog loss to USC was"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>FRESNO, Calif. (FOX26) \u2014 Despite a disappointing performance by Fresno State football in the season opener at No. 14 USC, ESPN Fresno radio personality Phil Benotti explains why a confluence of factors created the &#8220;perfect storm&#8221; &#8211; and why there are much brighter days ahead for the Bulldogs.<\/p>\n<p>You can listen to Benotti on &#8220;Behind The Bench&#8221; every Monday through Friday, 3 to 6 p.m. on 1430 AM ESPN.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FRESNO, Calif. (FOX26) \u2014 Despite a disappointing performance by Fresno State football in the season opener at No.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":456696,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[112,114,113],"class_list":["post-456695","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fresno","tag-fresno","tag-fresno-headlines","tag-fresno-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/456695","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=456695"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/456695\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/456696"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=456695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=456695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=456695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}