{"id":64808,"date":"2025-11-29T22:54:06","date_gmt":"2025-11-29T22:54:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/64808\/"},"modified":"2025-11-29T22:54:06","modified_gmt":"2025-11-29T22:54:06","slug":"jacksonville-state-defeats-western-kentucky-will-host-2nd-straight-conference-usa-title-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/64808\/","title":{"rendered":"Jacksonville State defeats Western Kentucky, will host 2nd straight Conference USA title game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | text-start article-text\">JACKSONVILLE, Ala. (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.wbrc.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">WBRC<\/a>) &#8211; For the second year in a row, Jacksonville State will host the Conference USA championship game!<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | text-start article-text\">The Gamecocks defeated Western Kentucky Saturday on a 37-yard Garrison Rippa field goal as time expired, giving the Gamecocks a 37-34 win and an appearance in the CUSA championship under first year head coach Charles Kelly.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | text-start article-text\">The Gamecocks will play for their <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wbrc.com\/2024\/12\/07\/jacksonville-state-runs-over-western-kentucky-52-12-wins-conference-usa-championship\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.wbrc.com\/2024\/12\/07\/jacksonville-state-runs-over-western-kentucky-52-12-wins-conference-usa-championship\/\">second straight CUSA championship after defeating Western Kentucky in the title game last year<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | text-start article-text\">Jax Sate will host Kennesaw State, who also clinched their spot in the title game Saturday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | text-start article-text\">Get news alerts in the <a href=\"https:\/\/apps.apple.com\/us\/app\/wbrc-fox6-news\/id449660326\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Apple App Store<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/play.google.com\/store\/apps\/details?id=com.raycom.wbrc&amp;hl=en_US&amp;gl=US\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Google Play Store<\/a> or subscribe to our email newsletter <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wbrc.com\/newsletter\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2025 WBRC. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"JACKSONVILLE, Ala. (WBRC) &#8211; For the second year in a row, Jacksonville State will host the Conference USA&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":64809,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[38521,16842,19811,8025,8026,8023,8024,116,118,117,16843,17635,2816,38519,8037,38520,8031,914,8021,8030,8029,8028,8027,8022,38522],"class_list":["post-64808","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jacksonville","tag-amfirst-stadium","tag-charles-kelly","tag-conference-usa","tag-fox-6","tag-fox-6-news","tag-fox6","tag-fox6-news","tag-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville-headlines","tag-jacksonville-news","tag-jacksonville-state","tag-jacksonville-state-football","tag-jax","tag-jax-state","tag-jsu","tag-jsu-football","tag-myfoxal","tag-state","tag-wbrc","tag-wbrc-6-news","tag-wbrc-6news","tag-wbrc-fox-6-news","tag-wbrc-fox6-news","tag-wbrc-news","tag-western-kentucky"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64808","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=64808"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64808\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/64809"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}