{"id":458285,"date":"2026-10-06T19:42:08","date_gmt":"2026-10-06T19:42:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/458285\/"},"modified":"2026-10-06T19:42:08","modified_gmt":"2026-10-06T19:42:08","slug":"press-conference-sam-houston-liberty-university","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/458285\/","title":{"rendered":"Press Conference: Sam Houston &#8211; Liberty University"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As part of the team&#8217;s preparation for their Thursday night Conference USA game against Sam Houston, Liberty Head Football Coach <a href=\"https:\/\/libertyflames.com\/sports\/football\/roster\/coaches\/jamey-chadwell\/2661\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"2661\" target=\"_blank\">Jamey Chadwell<\/a> met with the media on Tuesday. \u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nDuring the media session, Chadwell provided his final thoughts on Liberty&#8217;s CUSA opening win over Delaware, plus looked ahead to the Midweek on the Mountain matchup against Sam Houston.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nAfter Chadwell&#8217;s weekly presser, running back <a href=\"https:\/\/libertyflames.com\/sports\/football\/roster\/peyton-jones\/16523\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"16523\" target=\"_blank\">Peyton Jones<\/a> and safety <a href=\"https:\/\/libertyflames.com\/sports\/football\/roster\/izaiah-guy\/16517\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"16517\" target=\"_blank\">Izaiah Guy<\/a> addressed the media from the Media Room inside the Liberty Football Center.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nThe home team has posted a narrow victory in each of the two previous meetings between the Flames and Bearkats, who both joined CUSA in 2023.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nLiberty opened its fourth season of CUSA play with a 30-14 victory at Delaware on Friday. The Flames scored the game&#8217;s first 30 points and racked up a season-high 282 rushing yards.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nThe Flames enter Thursday&#8217;s contest riding a four-game winning streak. As a result, they have already matched their win total (4) from the entire 2025 season.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/libertyflames.com\/sports\/football\/roster\/coaches\/jamey-chadwell\/2661\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"2661\" target=\"_blank\">Jamey Chadwell<\/a> is 29-14 in his fourth season at Liberty and owns a 60-20 coaching record dating back to the start of 2020. He is 18-4 coaching at home with the Flames and 8-2 in October contests.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nFirst-year Liberty running back <a href=\"https:\/\/libertyflames.com\/sports\/football\/roster\/kam-davis\/16508\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"16508\" target=\"_blank\">Kam Davis<\/a> has headlined the Flames&#8217; strong rushing attack of late. After posting a career-high 166 yards on the ground at Coastal Carolina, Davis went for 147 yards and a career-best two rushing touchdowns at Delaware. He ranks No. 9 nationally with 7.1 yards per carry this season.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nLiberty&#8217;s defense forced two turnovers at Delaware (one interception, one fumble recovery), giving the Flames a conference-high eight takeaways this year. The Flames have held three straight opponents below the 20-point mark and are now 12-0 when doing so under <a href=\"https:\/\/libertyflames.com\/sports\/football\/roster\/coaches\/jamey-chadwell\/2661\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"2661\" target=\"_blank\">Jamey Chadwell<\/a>.<br \/>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As part of the team&#8217;s preparation for their Thursday night Conference USA game against Sam Houston, Liberty Head&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":458286,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[56,58,57],"class_list":["post-458285","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-houston","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458285","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=458285"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458285\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/458286"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=458285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=458285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=458285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}