{"id":1027967,"date":"2026-10-15T05:42:15","date_gmt":"2026-10-15T05:42:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/1027967\/"},"modified":"2026-10-15T05:42:15","modified_gmt":"2026-10-15T05:42:15","slug":"western-kentucky-shuts-down-sam-houston-in-16-3-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/1027967\/","title":{"rendered":"Western Kentucky shuts down Sam Houston in 16-3 win"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>HUNTSVILLE, Texas (AP)  Brock Glenn and Coleson Arends connected on the game&#8217;s lone touchdown, Karl Campbell hit all three of his field goal attempts, and <a class=\"Annotation-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbssports.com\/college-football\/teams\/WKY\/western-kentucky-hilltoppers\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Western Kentucky<\/a> took down <a class=\"Annotation-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbssports.com\/college-football\/teams\/SAMST\/sam-houston-bearkats\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sam Houston<\/a> 16-3 on Wednesday night.<\/p>\n<p>The Hilltoppers (3-4, 2-1 Conference USA) remain perfect against Sam Houston since the Bearkats (1-5, 0-2) joined CUSA in 2023, and are 4-1 in the series.<\/p>\n<p>Freshman Jonathan Stafford Jr. had five catches for 37 yards, and his 41 receptions are third on WKU&#8217;s freshman receiving list.<\/p>\n<p>WKU scored on its first possession of the game after forcing a Sam Houston three-and-out in just 50 seconds of game time.<\/p>\n<p>Arends reeled in a 23-yard pass from Glenn to cap an 11-play, 65-yard drive.<\/p>\n<p>Campbell connected on field goals of 33, 35, and 39 yards.<\/p>\n<p>The Bearkats&#8217; only points came from Sam Carpenter&#8217;s 42-yard field goal in the second quarter. They were held to 177 total yards, and managed just 12 first downs.<\/p>\n<p>Freshman Westen Ard had a career-high 10 total tackles and 1 1\/2 sacks.<\/p>\n<p>Western Kentucky: host Delaware on Oct. 27.<\/p>\n<p>Sam Houston: host New Mexico State on Oct. 21. &#8212;<\/p>\n<p>Sign up for Top 25 poll alerts here, visit the Top 25 here and see AP\u2019s full college football coverage here<\/p>\n<p class=\"StatsincCopyright\">\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":"HUNTSVILLE, Texas (AP) Brock Glenn and Coleson Arends connected on the game&#8217;s lone touchdown, Karl Campbell hit all&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1021761,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[331,7,49,48,21198,4730],"class_list":["post-1027967","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ncaa-football","tag-college-football","tag-football","tag-ncaa","tag-ncaa-football","tag-sam-houston-bearkats","tag-western-kentucky-hilltoppers"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/117443332927570383","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1027967","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1027967"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1027967\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1021761"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1027967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1027967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1027967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}