{"id":31681,"date":"2025-11-02T05:48:13","date_gmt":"2025-11-02T05:48:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/31681\/"},"modified":"2025-11-02T05:48:13","modified_gmt":"2025-11-02T05:48:13","slug":"jordan-scruggs-takes-interception-to-the-house-at-houston","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/31681\/","title":{"rendered":"Jordan Scruggs Takes Interception to the House at Houston"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Right when it appeared as if Houston was finding a rhythm in the second half, WVU cornerback Jordan Scruggs took his interception off Conner Weigman all the way to the house for an 80-yard pick-6.<\/p>\n<p>West Virginia silenced crowd and jumped back ahead by multiple scores. At the time of Scruggs\u2019 pick-6, WVU held a 31-21 edge.<\/p>\n<p>This was also not the first big turnover of the third quarter.<\/p>\n<p>Avoiding a second slump, which has become a common theme for WVU, safety Derek Carter Jr. grabbed an interception off a tipped ball, flipping the field and leading to a Kade Hensely 50-yard field goal that reclaimed a slim advantage at 24-21 earlier in the second half.<\/p>\n<p>Stay with WV Sports Now for <a href=\"https:\/\/wvsportsnow.com\/category\/wvu-football\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">more coverage of WVU football<\/a> at Houston.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Right when it appeared as if Houston was finding a rhythm in the second half, WVU cornerback Jordan&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":31682,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[315,1551,56,16343,58,57,20786,16344],"class_list":["post-31681","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-big-12","tag-feature","tag-houston","tag-houston-football","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-news","tag-jordan-scruggs","tag-wvu-football"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31681","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=31681"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31681\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31682"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}