{"id":1817,"date":"2026-08-06T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-08-06T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stepfoxthemes.com\/gridiron-elementor\/preview-buf-at-hou-week-1-2026\/"},"modified":"2026-08-06T04:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-08-06T08:00:00","slug":"week-1-preview-bison-at-outlaws","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stepfoxthemes.com\/yardline-league-elementor\/week-1-preview-bison-at-outlaws\/","title":{"rendered":"Week 1 preview: Bison at Outlaws"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Northgate Bison travel to Silverton Bowl, Silverton for the opening week of the 2026 season, kick-off Sunday 13 September at 17:00 UTC, live on Channel 4.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Northgate Bison finished the 2025 season 12-5 and took the 6th seed in the Atlantic. Silverton Outlaws finished 12-5 and took the 5th seed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The opening line has it at BUF -1.5 with a total of 44.5, which tells you the market is treating this as a home-field game rather than a mismatch.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Longer term, the interesting question is repeatability. Turnover margin swings from season to season; yards per play does not, and that is the number to trust in a projection.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Calvin Rhodes is in charge on the home sideline, with Owen Kessler opposite him. Week one form is famously unreliable, but the openers still set the tone for a division race that runs to January.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Northgate Bison open at Silverton Bowl, live on Channel 4. Two clubs that finished 12-5 and 12-5 meet on the first weekend.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":3152,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[99,54,57,98],"class_list":["post-1817","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-previews","tag-2026-season","tag-bills","tag-texans","tag-week-1"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stepfoxthemes.com\/yardline-league-elementor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1817","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stepfoxthemes.com\/yardline-league-elementor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stepfoxthemes.com\/yardline-league-elementor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stepfoxthemes.com\/yardline-league-elementor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stepfoxthemes.com\/yardline-league-elementor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1817"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stepfoxthemes.com\/yardline-league-elementor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1817\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stepfoxthemes.com\/yardline-league-elementor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stepfoxthemes.com\/yardline-league-elementor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stepfoxthemes.com\/yardline-league-elementor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stepfoxthemes.com\/yardline-league-elementor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}