{"id":39360,"date":"2025-11-09T02:08:11","date_gmt":"2025-11-09T02:08:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/39360\/"},"modified":"2025-11-09T02:08:11","modified_gmt":"2025-11-09T02:08:11","slug":"creel-cook-combine-for-259-rushing-yards-to-give-jacksonville-state-30-27-win-over-utep","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/39360\/","title":{"rendered":"Creel, Cook combine for 259 rushing yards to give Jacksonville State 30-27 win over UTEP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"VideoPlayer-backgroundImage\" alt=\"default-cbs-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/1762486331_621_video-slate.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>EL PASO, Texas (AP)  Caden Creel and Cam Cook combined for 259 rushing yards and were involved in late scores for <a class=\"Annotation-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbssports.com\/college-football\/teams\/JAXST\/jacksonville-state-gamecocks\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jacksonville State<\/a> in a 30-27 win over <a class=\"Annotation-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbssports.com\/college-football\/teams\/UTEP\/utep-miners\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">UTEP<\/a> on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Creel&#8217;s 31-yard scramble on a six-play, 46-yard drive set up Garrison Rippa&#8217;s 45-yard, game-winning field goal with 53 seconds remaining.<\/p>\n<p>Creel had 134 rushing yards on 13 attempts, and was 15-of-31 passing for 181 yards, with a touchdown and an interception. He found Deondre Johnson for a 77-yard touchdown strike on the Gamecocks&#8217; opening drive.<\/p>\n<p>Cook had 127 yards on 19 carries, scoring his lone touchdown to take the lead for the Gamecocks (6-3, 5-0 Conference USA) with 10:01 left in the fourth quarter.<\/p>\n<p>Skyler Locklear accounted for four touchdowns for the Miners (2-7, 1-4), and one for the Gamecocks, on a 93-yard pick-six by Caleb Nix in the second quarter.<\/p>\n<p>Locklear was 16-of-32 passing for 244 yards and two touchdowns, with 82 yards and two touchdowns on the ground.<\/p>\n<p>Wondame Davis Jr. had a career-high 166 receiving yards, including a 75-yard touchdown grab, on five receptions.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;<\/p>\n<p>Get poll alerts and updates on the AP Top 25 throughout the season. Sign up here and here (AP News mobile app). AP college football: https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/ap-top-25-college-football-poll and https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/college-football<\/p>\n<p class=\"StatsincCopyright\">\n    Copyright 2025 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":"EL PASO, Texas (AP) Caden Creel and Cam Cook combined for 259 rushing yards and were involved in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":30844,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[143,116,118,117,4642,5925],"class_list":{"0":"post-39360","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-jacksonville","8":"tag-college-football","9":"tag-jacksonville","10":"tag-jacksonville-headlines","11":"tag-jacksonville-news","12":"tag-jacksonville-state-gamecocks","13":"tag-utep-miners"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39360","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=39360"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39360\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30844"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}