JACKSONVILLE, Ala. (AP) Cam Cook rushed for 117 yards and three touchdown, Caden Creel threw for 116 yards and a touchdown, and Jacksonville State Gamecocks beat Delaware Fightin’ Blue Hens 38-25 on Wednesday night.
Jacksonville State (4-3, 3-0 Conference USA) has won nine straight at AmFirst Stadium.
Jacksonville State scored the opening 21 points and extended it to 35-6 after Cook’s two short touchdown runs in the third quarter. Garrison Rippa made a 52-yard field goal with 11:57 left in the fourth for a 38-12 lead.
Creel also carried it 12 times for 57 yards for Jacksonville State. Brock Rechsteiner had three catches for 48 yards and a score. Caleb Nix scored for the defense on a 45-yard fumble return.
Nick Minicucci was 32 of 50 for 422 yards and a touchdown for Delaware (3-3, 1-2). Viron Ellison Jr. had three short touchdown runs.
Delaware won the other two series meetings – in the 1978 Division II playoffs and in the 2020 FCS playoffs.
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| PASSING | CP/ATT | YDS | TD | INT |
| N. Minicucci | 32/50 | 422 | 1 | 0 |
| RUSHING | ATT | YDS | TD | LG |
| V. Ellison Jr. | 8 | 15 | 3 | 4 | |
| N. Minicucci | 7 | 13 | 0 | 11 | |
| N. Tyree | 1 | 4 | 0 | 4 | |
| J. Silver | 6 | 2 | 0 | 7 |
| RECEIVING | TAR | REC | YDS | TD | LG |
| K. Duplessis | 11 | 6 | 90 | 0 | 39 | |
| M. Patterson | 4 | 4 | 87 | 1 | 40 | |
| J. Silver | 5 | 4 | 63 | 0 | 36 | |
| D. Lewis | 7 | 4 | 62 | 0 | 26 | |
| E. Sessoms | 4 | 4 | 44 | 0 | 21 | |
| N. Laboy | 3 | 2 | 40 | 0 | 31 | |
| S. Wilson | 7 | 3 | 17 | 0 | 9 | |
| V. Ellison Jr. | 1 | 1 | 8 | 0 | 8 | |
| S. Moore | 1 | 1 | 5 | 0 | 5 | |
| J. Thaw | 4 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 2 | |
| J. Kelly | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| PASSING | CP/ATT | YDS | TD | INT |
| C. Creel | 14/21 | 116 | 1 | 0 | |
| G. Wimsatt | 2/3 | 17 | 0 | 0 |
| RUSHING | ATT | YDS | TD | LG |
| C. Cook | 18 | 117 | 3 | 66 | |
| C. Creel | 12 | 57 | 0 | 16 | |
| J. Likely | 3 | 42 | 0 | 34 | |
| K. Lando | 4 | 24 | 0 | 17 | |
| J. Savage | 4 | 13 | 0 | 6 | |
| A. Paul | 4 | 6 | 0 | 3 | |
| J. Campbell | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| G. Wimsatt | 3 | -2 | 0 | 14 |
| RECEIVING | TAR | REC | YDS | TD | LG |
| B. Rechsteiner | 4 | 3 | 48 | 1 | 23 | |
| C. Coombs | 6 | 5 | 29 | 0 | 24 | |
| C. Cook | 3 | 3 | 27 | 0 | 25 | |
| D. Gentry | 3 | 2 | 13 | 0 | 12 | |
| P. Baldwin | 1 | 1 | 11 | 0 | 11 | |
| G. Glover | 1 | 1 | 5 | 0 | 5 | |
| J. Likely | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| M. Pettway | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| D. Johnson | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |