{"id":870145,"date":"2026-10-04T05:22:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-04T05:22:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/870145\/"},"modified":"2026-10-04T05:22:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-04T05:22:09","slug":"college-football-week-5-recaps-highlights-rankings-and-scores","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/870145\/","title":{"rendered":"College football Week 5: Recaps, highlights, rankings and scores"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While you were watching these potential upsets brewing in the FCS, a big one just went down in the FCS.<\/p>\n<p>No. 8 Tennessee Tech goes down, as Western Carolina dominated the Golden Eagles 44-20. This hands Tennessee Tech their first loss of the season.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Quarterback Lex Thomas led WCU, finishing with 236 passing yards and one touchdown. Thomas didn&#8217;t stop there; he rushed for 19 carries and 94 yards. While the offense was moving, the WCU defense was on fire, forcing five turnovers and allowing only 53 rushing yards.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">ANOTHER FUMBLE! Andre jackson Jr. tackles and rips the ball out for turnover Catamount Defense keeps pursuing! #LOTE | #Ownit26 https:\/\/t.co\/xnq6KU859Y<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Western Carolina Football (@CatamountsFB) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/CatamountsFB\/status\/2106559565240131850?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow\">October 4, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Golden Eagles tried to capitalize on WCU\u2019s 11 penalties, resulting in 127 yards. But the Golden Eagles couldn&#8217;t find flight. After going scoreless in the first quarter, they found themselves scoring 20 points, making the score as close as 20-17. With one minute remaining, Martin-Durham put the cherry on top, running in for his second touchdown of the day to cap off the upset win.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">TOUCHDOWN CATAMOUNTS! Jordan Martin-Durham jumps and dives into the endzone for his second TD of the day, and seals the deal! #LOTE | #OwnIt26 https:\/\/t.co\/THfigXCN2D<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Western Carolina Football (@CatamountsFB) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/CatamountsFB\/status\/2106567438787571742?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow\">October 4, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"While you were watching these potential upsets brewing in the FCS, a big one just went down in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":870146,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[99],"class_list":["post-870145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/870145","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=870145"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/870145\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/870146"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=870145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=870145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=870145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}