{"id":31086,"date":"2025-11-01T19:11:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-01T19:11:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/31086\/"},"modified":"2025-11-01T19:11:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-01T19:11:07","slug":"updating-how-phil-longo-sam-houston-state-have-fared-in-2025-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/31086\/","title":{"rendered":"Updating how Phil Longo, Sam Houston State have fared in 2025 season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sam Houston State, led by former Wisconsin offensive coordinator Phil Longo, is winless through eight games in the 2025 season.The Bearkats have a point differential of minus-194 after a 55-14 loss to Louisiana Tech.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">For Wisconsin fans unhappy with the team&#8217;s current form and the program&#8217;s overall <a href=\"http:\/\/badgerswire.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/college\/badgers\/football\/2025\/10\/31\/wisconsin-collin-wilder-luke-fickell-alumni-comments\/87013336007\/\" data-t-l=\":b|e|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">trajectory under coach Luke Fickell<\/a>, there&#8217;s at least one Power Four team currently in worse shape.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">That is Sam Houston State, which is led by first-year coach Phil Longo, Wisconsin&#8217;s former offensive coordinator. The Bearkats fell to 0-8 on the 2025 season with a 55-14 loss to Louisiana Tech on Friday night. The 41-point margin extended the team&#8217;s season-long point differential to minus-194. With Week 10 action ongoing, it currently ranks No. 135 of 136 Football Bowl Subdivision teams in both ESPN&#8217;s Football Power Index and SP+.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Sam Houston went 10-3 in 2024, capped by a New Orleans Bowl win over Georgia Southern. Head coach K.C. Keeler left for the Temple opening after the season, leading to Longo&#8217;s hire. The team is winless since that point, with just one game decided by fewer than 17 points.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Former Wisconsin quarterback Mabrey Mettauer, who followed Longo to Sam Houston State this offseason, has appeared in five of the team&#8217;s eight games in 2025, completing 32 of 51 pass attempts for 250 yards, two touchdowns and two interceptions. The team as a whole is averaging just 16.6 points per game and allows an FBS-worst 40.9.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Of course, Wisconsin has dealt with offensive struggles of its own in 2025, averaging just 12.5 points per game and scoring one touchdown in its last 15 quarters. The program&#8217;s shift from Longo to Jeff Grimes has yet to lead to tangible improvement in any relevant statistical category. But while <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/ncaaf\/teams\/wisconsin-badgers\/3442\/\" data-autotag=\"697365a3-699f-4af7-8f00-1279346ea874\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-t-l=\":b|e|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\">Badgers<\/a> fans are right to be unhappy with the team&#8217;s current form, there is at least one FBS team having a tougher time on the field.<\/p>\n<p>Need a news break? <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-t-l=\":body nav (play)|e|auto spike click:5|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_sp_a\" href=\"https:\/\/play.usatoday.com\/?itm_source=SPIKE&amp;itm_campaign=PLAYSPIKE&amp;itm_medium=ONSITE\">Check out the all new PLAY hub with puzzles, games and more!<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Contact\/Follow\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/thebadgerswire\" data-t-l=\":b|z|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">@TheBadgersWire<\/a>\u00a0on X (formerly Twitter) and like our page on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/badgerswire\" data-t-l=\":b|z|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a>\u00a0to follow ongoing coverage of Wisconsin Badgers news, notes and opinion<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sam Houston State, led by former Wisconsin offensive coordinator Phil Longo, is winless through eight games in the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":31087,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[33,56,58,57,20609,35,44,3160,3155,45,1589,18378,4576,20611,217,46,679,9025,20610,20612,36],"class_list":["post-31086","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-accessfree","tag-houston","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-news","tag-sstssportscollegebadgersfootball","tag-sstsnfootball","tag-tagamerican-football","tag-tagbig-10-hub","tag-tagbig-ten-conference-football","tag-tagcollege-sports","tag-tagespn-inc","tag-tagfacebook","tag-taglouisiana-tech-bulldogs-football","tag-tagluke-fickell","tag-tagoverall-negative","tag-tagsports-news","tag-tagstory-highlights-ai-enabled","tag-tagtwitter","tag-tagwisconsin","tag-tagwisconsin-badgers-football","tag-typestory"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31086","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31086"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31086\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31087"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}