{"id":466906,"date":"2026-10-15T16:06:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-15T16:06:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/466906\/"},"modified":"2026-10-15T16:06:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-15T16:06:09","slug":"canzano-boots-on-the-ground-at-texas-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/466906\/","title":{"rendered":"Canzano: Boots on the ground at Texas State"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"image-link image2 is-viewable-img can-restack\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/substackcdn.com\/image\/fetch\/$s_!oQHc!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep\/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F7881e045-44bc-4cd0-860d-b73b1272023f_1500x1000.jpeg\" data-component-name=\"Image2ToDOM\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/https:\/\/substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com\/public\/images\/7881e045-44bc-4cd0-860d-b73b1272023f_1500.jpeg\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800.2747252747253\" data-attrs=\"{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com\/public\/images\/7881e045-44bc-4cd0-860d-b73b1272023f_1500x1000.jpeg&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:false,&quot;imageSize&quot;:&quot;large&quot;,&quot;height&quot;:971,&quot;width&quot;:1456,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:1200,&quot;bytes&quot;:226688,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image\/jpeg&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:false,&quot;topImage&quot;:true,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/www.johncanzano.com\/i\/220540469?img=https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F7881e045-44bc-4cd0-860d-b73b1272023f_1500x1000.jpeg&quot;,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:&quot;center&quot;,&quot;offset&quot;:false}\" class=\"sizing-large\" alt=\"\"   fetchpriority=\"high\"\/><\/a>Texas State left the Sun Belt for the Pac-12. <\/p>\n<p>SAN MARCOS, Texas \u2014 I have not dipped a toe in the San Marcos River yet or walked around the college town that is the site of Texas State University. <\/p>\n<p>I flew into Austin at night.<\/p>\n<p>I made the 33-mile drive from the airport to San Marcos, and woke to the morning hum of Interstate-35 beyond my hotel window. I\u2019m here to see Thursday night\u2019s college football game between Texas State and Colorado State. It\u2019s part of my new-world Pac-12 tour that aims to understand what this conference is about. <\/p>\n<p>This is Part 5 of my ongoing series about the new members of the Pac-12. I\u2019ve visited Gonzaga, Boise State, San Diego State, and Utah State. I\u2019ll make trips to Fresno State and Colorado State next. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Texas State left the Sun Belt for the Pac-12. SAN MARCOS, Texas \u2014 I have not dipped a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":466907,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[27,29,28],"class_list":["post-466906","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466906","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=466906"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466906\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/466907"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=466906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=466906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=466906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}