{"id":26699,"date":"2025-11-03T12:52:11","date_gmt":"2025-11-03T12:52:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/26699\/"},"modified":"2025-11-03T12:52:11","modified_gmt":"2025-11-03T12:52:11","slug":"central-new-yorks-diamond-in-the-rough-is-thriving-in-ncaas-top-football-conference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/26699\/","title":{"rendered":"Central New York\u2019s \u2018diamond in the rough\u2019 is thriving in NCAA\u2019s top football conference"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a id=\"articleLabel__link\" class=\"articleLabel__link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.syracuse.com\/highschoolsports\/\" title=\"Navigate to High School Sports News\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">High School Sports News<\/a>Updated: Nov. 03, 2025, 7:22 a.m.|Published: Nov. 03, 2025, 7:00 a.m.<img fetchpriority=\"high\" loading=\"eager\" decoding=\"sync\" alt=\"Arkansas Football\" class=\"hero-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/D7RJQLXNIFDHVPFJR6HYDLUBTY.jpg\"\/>Arkansas running back Mike Washington Jr. began his playing days in Utica, N.Y.AP<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"LLRLSNVPINDNTKFOEXHVQYYB4Q\">Arkansas senior Mike Washington Jr. has emerged as one of the best running backs in the Southeastern Conference this season. <\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"7BUBO6KZJ5BQFDHEBGQUMMQ77M\">He is third in the conference with 828 rushing yards and has six rushing touchdowns through 10 weeks of the season.<\/p>\n<p>Kenny Lacy covers high school sports for Syracuse.com | The Post-Standard. He writes about all high school teams in Section III. Aside from typical game coverage, Kenny works to tell athletes&#8217; stories that go&#8230; more<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--center skimlinks\">If you purchase a product or register for an account through a link on our site, we may receive compensation. By using this site, you consent to our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.advancelocal.com\/advancelocalUserAgreement\/user-agreement.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">User Agreement<\/a> and agree that your clicks, interactions, and personal information may be collected, recorded, and\/or stored by us and social media and other third-party partners in accordance with our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.advancelocal.com\/advancelocalUserAgreement\/privacy-policy.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Privacy Policy.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"High School Sports NewsUpdated: Nov. 03, 2025, 7:22 a.m.|Published: Nov. 03, 2025, 7:00 a.m.Arkansas running back Mike Washington&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":26700,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[16860,9,11,10],"class_list":["post-26699","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-16860","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26699","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26699"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26699\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26700"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}