{"id":30486,"date":"2025-11-03T11:33:18","date_gmt":"2025-11-03T16:33:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/?p=30486"},"modified":"2025-11-03T11:33:20","modified_gmt":"2025-11-03T16:33:20","slug":"wzbd-pigskin-pickem-the-crucible-week-12","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/2025\/11\/03\/wzbd-pigskin-pickem-the-crucible-week-12\/","title":{"rendered":"WZBD Pigskin Pick&#8217;em&#8230;&#8221;The Crucible&#8221; Week 12"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>This is the week that most pickers dread&#8230;and it&#8217;s gone under a number of names.  This year, we bring you &#8220;The Crucible.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For those that don&#8217;t know, The Crucible is a very stressful and strenuous final challenge for Marine recruits, enduring a 54-hour final test that challenges the recruits down both mentally and physically through a series of demanding tasks.  Completing the Crucible is the final step before recruits get The Eagle, Globe, and Anchor, earning the title of Marine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Our Crucible&#8230;well, it&#8217;s not as physical, but definitely a mental stress.  This week, we pick EVERY sectional championship game!  Yes, all 48 of them!  Also, with Veteran&#8217;s Day next Tuesday, we pick the games for all the service academy teams.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Do you have what it takes to complete The Crucible? Make your picks by <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/forms\/d\/e\/1FAIpQLSeItizFOC-uLuusyucysSKA1D-j-DXNYkSGAIOVyyA8txL2rw\/viewform?usp=publish-editor\">clicking here<\/a>, and get them in before the deadline of kickoff Friday at 7pm.  Best of luck as you make your way through The Crucible&#8230;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"ose-google-docs-forms\" data-embed-type=\"Google Forms\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/forms\/d\/e\/1FAIpQLSeItizFOC-uLuusyucysSKA1D-j-DXNYkSGAIOVyyA8txL2rw\/viewform?usp=publish-editor\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" allowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen=\"true\" webkitallowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/iframe><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is the week that most pickers dread&#8230;and it&#8217;s gone under a number of names. This year, we<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":5357,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[15,54,82,26],"class_list":["post-30486","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-featured","tag-football","tag-pickem","tag-sports"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wzbd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/WZBDPigskinPickem-pic2.jpg?fit=468%2C262&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30486","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30486"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30486\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30487,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30486\/revisions\/30487"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5357"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}