The Gamecocks racked up 526 yards of total offense, got a 43-yard interception return from Caleb Nix and saw Jalen Likely break loose for a 45-yard scoring run while building a 28-point halftime cushion.<\/p>\n
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JACKSONVILLE, Ala. (AP) Caden Creel threw four of his five touchdown passes to Jamill Williams to lead Jacksonville State<\/a> to a 49-7 victory over Eastern Kentucky<\/a> on Saturday night.<\/p>\n Creel completed 21 of 28 passes for 327 yards and Williams made seven catches for 144 yards. Jalen Likely added 73 yards rushing on five carries for Jacksonville State (1-1).<\/p>\n The Gamecocks built a 35-7 halftime lead. Creel connected with Williams three times for touchdowns, Caleb Nix scored on a 43-yard interception return and Likely broke loose on a 45-yard TD run. Creel completed 12 of 16 passes for 174 yards in the first half and Williams made five catches for 109 yards.<\/p>\n Brady Hensley ran for a 72-yard touchdown for Eastern Kentucky (0-2). Tyler Travers completed 12 of 19 passes for 90 yards and threw two interceptions for the Colonels.<\/p>\n The Gamecocks had 526 yards of offense and were 9 of 11 on third-down conversions.<\/p>\n Eastern Kentucky: Hosts Chattanooga on Saturday.<\/p>\n Jacksonville State: At Ohio on Saturday.<\/p>\n —<\/p>\n Sign up for Top 25 poll alerts here, visit the Top 25 here and see AP\u2019s full college football coverage here<\/p>\n \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":"The Gamecocks racked up 526 yards of total offense, got a 43-yard interception return from Caleb Nix and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":391866,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[143,47684,116,118,117,4642],"class_list":["post-391865","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jacksonville","tag-college-football","tag-eastern-kentucky-colonels","tag-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville-headlines","tag-jacksonville-news","tag-jacksonville-state-gamecocks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391865","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=391865"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391865\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/391866"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=391865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=391865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=391865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}