{"id":57512,"date":"2025-11-23T09:40:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-23T09:40:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/57512\/"},"modified":"2025-11-23T09:40:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-23T09:40:10","slug":"bethune-cookman-scores-late-beats-florida-am-38-34-to-end-4-game-skid-in-florida-classic-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/57512\/","title":{"rendered":"Bethune-Cookman scores late, beats Florida A&M 38-34 to end 4-game skid in Florida Classic"},"content":{"rendered":"

ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) \u2014 Timmy McClain threw a 41-yard touchdown pass to Josh Evans with 20 seconds left<\/a> to give Bethune-Cookman a 38-34 victory over Florida A&M on Saturday night in the Florida Classic, snapping a four-game skid in the series. <\/p>\n

The game-winning score capped an eight-play, 70-yard drive. Florida A&M erased a 24-9 halftime deficit and took the lead twice in the fourth quarter. <\/p>\n

McClain completed 22 of 33 passes for 274 yards and threw a touchdown pass each to four different receivers. Khamani Robinson added 90 yards rushing on 11 carries that included a 50-yard touchdown run for Bethune-Cookman (6-6, 5-3 Southwestern Athletic Conference). <\/p>\n

RJ Johnson III was 22-of-34 passing for 228 yards and threw two touchdown passes for Florida A&M (5-6, 4-3). Thad Franklin Jr. carried the ball 11 times for 120 yards and scored on a 19-yard run that gave the Rattlers a 34-31 lead with 2:19 remaining. <\/p>\n

Bethune-Cookman outgained FAMU 485-423 before a crowd of 55,528 in Camping World Stadium. <\/p>\n

It was the 45th annual SWAC and HBCU matchup. <\/p>\n

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Get poll alerts and updates on the AP Top 25 throughout the season. Sign up here<\/a> and here<\/a> (AP News mobile app). AP college football: https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/ap-top-25-college-football-poll<\/a> and https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/college-football<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) \u2014 Timmy McClain threw a 41-yard touchdown pass to Josh Evans with 20 seconds left…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":57513,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[111,143,1882,28,57,35313,30587,110,232,234,233,35312,35314],"class_list":["post-57512","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tallahassee","tag-college-sports","tag-college-football","tag-fl-state-wire","tag-florida","tag-football","tag-josh-evans","tag-local-news-for-apple","tag-sports","tag-tallahassee","tag-tallahassee-headlines","tag-tallahassee-news","tag-thad-franklin-jr","tag-timmy-mcclain"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57512","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=57512"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57512\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57513"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}