{"id":303887,"date":"2025-11-20T20:46:11","date_gmt":"2025-11-20T20:46:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/303887\/"},"modified":"2025-11-20T20:46:11","modified_gmt":"2025-11-20T20:46:11","slug":"after-penn-state-decommitment-dl-tavian-branch-says-ole-miss-auburn-and-virginia-tech-in-contention","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/303887\/","title":{"rendered":"After Penn State decommitment, DL Tavian Branch says Ole Miss, Auburn and Virginia Tech in contention"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As defensive lineman <a href=\"https:\/\/247sports.com\/Player\/tavian-branch-46150520\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Tavian Branch<\/a> became <a href=\"https:\/\/247sports.com\/college\/penn-state\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Penn State<\/a>&#8216;s latest decommitment\u00a0Wednesday, three schools are in contention and multiple visits remain possible,\u00a0the Taylor (Pa.) Riverside standout said.<\/p>\n<p>Branch took an <a href=\"https:\/\/247sports.com\/article\/penn-state-dl-commit-tavian-branch-explains-why-ole-miss-is-top-contender-following-official-visit-261851071\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">official visit<\/a>\u00a0to <a href=\"https:\/\/247sports.com\/college\/ole-miss\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Ole Miss<\/a> last weekend.<\/p>\n<p>He is slated to officially <a href=\"https:\/\/247sports.com\/college\/auburn\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Auburn<\/a> for the Nov. 29 Iron Bowl against <a href=\"https:\/\/247sports.com\/college\/alabama\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Alabama<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The other program involved is <a href=\"https:\/\/247sports.com\/college\/virginia-tech\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Virginia Tech<\/a>, whose new coach is <a href=\"https:\/\/247sports.com\/Coach\/james-franklin-56\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">James Franklin<\/a>. He flipped Branch from <a href=\"https:\/\/247sports.com\/college\/rutgers\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Rutgers<\/a> to Penn State in September.<\/p>\n<p>Suffice to say that there is a lot going on with the 6-foot-3, 300-pound Branch with two weeks until Signing Day.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s really those three programs,&#8221; Branch said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As defensive lineman Tavian Branch became Penn State&#8216;s latest decommitment\u00a0Wednesday, three schools are in contention and multiple visits&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":303888,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[399,398,396,397,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-303887","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ncaa-football","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-ncaa","10":"tag-ncaa-football","11":"tag-ncaafootball","12":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303887","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=303887"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303887\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/303888"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=303887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=303887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=303887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}