{"id":441214,"date":"2026-10-29T05:42:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-29T05:42:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/441214\/"},"modified":"2026-10-29T05:42:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-29T05:42:09","slug":"jacksonville-state-blanks-new-mexico-state-24-0-behind-caden-creel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/441214\/","title":{"rendered":"Jacksonville State blanks New Mexico State 24-0 behind Caden Creel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LAS CRUCES, N.M. (AP)  Quarterback Caden Creel rushed for a career-high 211 yards and a touchdown as <a class=\"Annotation-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbssports.com\/college-football\/teams\/JAXST\/jacksonville-state-gamecocks\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jacksonville State<\/a> shut out <a class=\"Annotation-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbssports.com\/college-football\/teams\/NMEXST\/new-mexico-state-aggies\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">New Mexico State<\/a> 24-0 on Wednesday night.<\/p>\n<p>The Gamecocks (6-2, 4-0 Conference USA) won their fifth straight game and clinched bowl eligibility for the fourth straight season at the Bowl Subdivision level.<\/p>\n<p>Creel became the first Jacksonville State quarterback to rush for 200 yards in a game, surpassing his previous career high of 161 yards against Southern Miss in 2025.<\/p>\n<p>He broke loose for a career-long 84-yard run late in the third quarter to set up Jalen Likely\u2019s 1-yard touchdown, which extended the lead to 17-0.<\/p>\n<p>Creel opened the scoring with a 3-yard touchdown run in the second quarter, and Garrison Rippa added a 49-yard field goal in the third. Creel connected with Luke Gilbert for a 29-yard touchdown in the fourth.<\/p>\n<p>Jacksonville State rushed for a season-high 324 yards, topping its previous best of 276 against Middle Tennessee.<\/p>\n<p>The Gamecocks also held New Mexico State scoreless and limited the Aggies to 29 yards passing. Marc Woods intercepted Adam Damante in the second half.<\/p>\n<p>New Mexico State rushed for 192 yards, led by James Jones&#8217; 112.<\/p>\n<p>Jacksonville State: Plays Sam Houston at home on Nov. 7.<\/p>\n<p>New Mexico State: Hosts Liberty on Nov. 7.<\/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":"LAS CRUCES, N.M. (AP) Quarterback Caden Creel rushed for a career-high 211 yards and a touchdown as Jacksonville&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":441215,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[143,116,118,117,4642,153323],"class_list":["post-441214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jacksonville","tag-college-football","tag-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville-headlines","tag-jacksonville-news","tag-jacksonville-state-gamecocks","tag-new-mexico-state-aggies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/441214","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=441214"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/441214\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/441215"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=441214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=441214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=441214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}