{"id":378979,"date":"2026-08-23T11:02:15","date_gmt":"2026-08-23T11:02:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/378979\/"},"modified":"2026-08-23T11:02:15","modified_gmt":"2026-08-23T11:02:15","slug":"jacksonville-rolls-past-piedmont-34-8-in-season-opener","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/378979\/","title":{"rendered":"Jacksonville Rolls Past Piedmont 34-8 in Season Opener"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New Jacksonville quarterback hooks up with newly minted receiver McNeal for three touchdowns as Jacksonville rolls at Piedmont<\/p>\n<p>This week\u2019s schedule<\/p>\n<p>THURSDAY, Aug. 20<br \/>Cleburne County 21, Etowah 0, FINAL<br \/>Hope Christian 48, Donoho 7, FINAL<br \/>Lincoln 36, Talladega 29, FINAL<br \/>Gaston 36, Spring Garden 12, FINAL<br \/>Wadley 46, Horseshoe Bend 13, FINAL<\/p>\n<p>FRIDAY, Aug. 21<br \/>Geraldine 54, Anniston 6, FINAL<br \/>Fyffe 21, Central-Clay 20, OT, FINAL<br \/>Pierce County (Ga.) 55, Coosa Christian 0, FINAL<br \/>Glencoe 35, Hayden 8<br \/>Jacksonville 34, Piedmont 8, FINAL<br \/>Jacksonville Christian 49, ASD 0, FINAL<br \/>New Hope 23, Ohatchee 16, OT, FINAL<br \/>Oxford 56, Gadsden City 28, FINAL<br \/>Pleasant Valley 26, White Plains 7, FINAL<br \/>Woodland 28, Randolph County 14, FINAL<br \/>Southside 30, Chelsea 7, FINAL<br \/>Wellborn 53, Weaver 0, FINAL<\/p>\n<p>By Joe Medley<\/p>\n<p>PIEDMONT \u2014One might guess that Cross Land\u2019s 80-yard touchdown bomb to Qua McNeal on Jacksonville\u2019s first offensive snap of the season was called well before Friday, and one would guess right.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was called in June,\u201d second-year Jacksonville coach Jeremy Sullivan said.<\/p>\n<p>Land went on to throw three touchdown passes to McNeal in the quarterback\u2019s first start since transferring from Auburn and McNeal\u2019s first start since moving to receiver, and the unranked Class 4A Golden Eagles topped Class 2A top-ranked Piedmont 34-8 on the Field of Champions.<\/p>\n<p>Lots more details, quotes, stats and pictures await EA+ subscribers.<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-102456\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Land-and-air.jpg\" alt=\"Land and air\" width=\"500\" height=\"300\"  \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New Jacksonville quarterback hooks up with newly minted receiver McNeal for three touchdowns as Jacksonville rolls at Piedmont&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":378980,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[116,118,117],"class_list":["post-378979","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville-headlines","tag-jacksonville-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378979","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=378979"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378979\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/378980"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=378979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=378979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=378979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}