Jmariyae Robinson totaled 102 receiving yards and a score, while Connor Lair added a late rushing touchdown to keep the Bearkats winless in Conference USA play.<\/p>\n
Oct 27, 2026<\/p>\n
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SPRIGNFIELD, Mo. (AP) Henry Belin IV threw for 184 yards and two touchdowns, with Isaiah Myers and Jmariyae Robinson each making a touchdown catch, and Missouri State<\/a> beat Sam Houston<\/a> 24-3 on Tuesday night.<\/p>\n Robinson caught a pass over the middle and stiff-armed Jace Arnold twice to find the end zone from 37-yards out on the first play of the fourth quarter to extend Missouri State’s lead to 17-3.<\/p>\n Sam Houston fumbled on a punt return later in the fourth and Missouri State capitalized on the short field when Connor Lair ran it in for a 1-yard touchdown with 3:44 left. The Bears broke up a fourth-down pass with 1:08 remaining to keep the Bearkats out of the end zone.<\/p>\n Robinson finished with seven catches for 102 yards and Myers had 77 yards on three grabs for Missouri State (3-5, 2-2 Conference USA). Lair rushed for 75 yards. Myers, who scored on a 32-yard catch with 4:09 left in the first to open the scoring, was coming off the best single-game receiving total in FBS this season with 11 catches for 242 yards and two touchdowns at Delaware.<\/p>\n DJ Bailey was 20 of 35 for 258 yards for Sam Houston (1-7, 0-4).<\/p>\n It was the first conference meeting between the two teams, and the first meeting between the programs since 2006. The Bearkats and Bears previously faced off twice as non-conference opponents when both programs were at the FCS level.<\/p>\n Sam Houston: Plays at Jacksonville State on Nov. 7.<\/p>\n Missouri State: Plays at Florida International on Nov. 7.<\/p>\n —<\/p>\n Sign up for Top 25 poll alerts here. Visit the Top 25 here and see AP\u2019s full college football coverage here.<\/p>\n \n Copyright 2026 STATS LLC and Associated Press. Any commercial use or distribution without the express written consent of STATS LLC and Associated Press is strictly prohibited.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jmariyae Robinson totaled 102 receiving yards and a score, while Connor Lair added a late rushing touchdown to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":478926,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[261,56,58,57,19364,5077],"class_list":["post-478925","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-college-football","tag-houston","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-news","tag-missouri-state-bears","tag-sam-houston-bearkats"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478925","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=478925"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478925\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/478926"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=478925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=478925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=478925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}