{"id":526800,"date":"2026-11-12T04:02:14","date_gmt":"2026-11-12T04:02:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/526800\/"},"modified":"2026-11-12T04:02:14","modified_gmt":"2026-11-12T04:02:14","slug":"central-michigan-rushes-for-319-yards-beats-sacramento-state-28-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/526800\/","title":{"rendered":"Central Michigan rushes for 319 yards, beats Sacramento State 28-7"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MOUNT PLEASANT, Mich. (AP)  Jayden Clerveaux rushed for 100 yards and a touchdown, and Brock Townsend scored twice as <a class=\"Annotation-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbssports.com\/college-football\/teams\/CMICH\/central-michigan-chippewas\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Central Michigan<\/a> beat <a class=\"Annotation-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbssports.com\/college-football\/teams\/SACST\/sacramento-state-hornets\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sacramento State<\/a> 28-7 on Wednesday night.<\/p>\n<p>The Chippewas (5-5, 3-3 Mid-American Conference) rushed for 319 yards, with Nick Woodford adding 119 yards on 23 carries. Townsend finished with 58 yards on five carries.<\/p>\n<p>Clerveaux opened the scoring with a 27-yard touchdown run in the first quarter, and Justin Taylor later intercepted Brian Salazar Jr. for his team-leading fourth interception of the season.<\/p>\n<p>Sacramento State (2-9, 1-7) tied the game on Isaiah Ene\u2019s 37-yard touchdown run with 4:01 left in the second quarter, but Central Michigan answered before the break. Vaughn Blue scored on an 8-yard run with 19 seconds remaining to give the Chippewas a 14-7 lead.<\/p>\n<p>Jadyn Glasser connected with Nasir Williams for a 52-yard gain in the second quarter, the longest reception of Williams\u2019 career. Central Michigan extended the lead in the third quarter when Townsend broke a 40-yard touchdown run to finish a 97-yard drive, the Chippewas\u2019 longest of the season.<\/p>\n<p>Townsend added a 6-yard touchdown with 1:05 remaining.<\/p>\n<p>Glasser threw for 105 yards, while Williams had three catches for 57 yards. Ene led Sacramento State with 67 rushing yards.<\/p>\n<p>Sacramento State has a bye week before traveling to Hawaii for the regular-season finale on Nov. 28.<\/p>\n<p>Central Michigan plays at Buffalo next Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;<\/p>\n<p>Sign up for Top 25 poll alerts here, visit the Top 25 here and see AP\u2019s full college football coverage here<\/p>\n<p class=\"StatsincCopyright\">\n    Copyright 2026 STATS LLC and Associated Press. Any commercial use or distribution without the express written consent of STATS LLC and Associated Press is strictly prohibited.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MOUNT PLEASANT, Mich. (AP) Jayden Clerveaux rushed for 100 yards and a touchdown, and Brock Townsend scored twice&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":526801,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[13632,1321,121,123,122,17685],"class_list":["post-526800","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sacramento","tag-central-michigan-chippewas","tag-college-football","tag-sacramento","tag-sacramento-headlines","tag-sacramento-news","tag-sacramento-state-hornets"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/526800","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=526800"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/526800\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/526801"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=526800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=526800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=526800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}