Soccer
Sport 11 • at Center Tennessee
Murfreesboro, Tenn. • Floyd Stadium (27,303)
Sam Houston (2-8, 1-5 CUSA) at Center Tennessee (1-9, 0-6 CUSA)
Saturday, November 22 • 2:00 PM
TV: ESPN+ (Jake Rose, Jeremy Kellem, Justin Beasley)
RADIO: BSN (Carlos Zimmermann, Brian Adams); KSHU 90.5 FM
HOW TO FOLLOW: Live Stats • @BearkatsFB on X
GAME NOTES: Sam Houston • Center Tennessee
Sequence vs the Blue Raiders: SHSU leads 2-1
HOUSTON – With a 3rd win in a row of their sights, the Sam Houston Bearkats will embark on the ultimate highway journey of 2025 this Saturday after they battle Center Tennessee at Johnny "Crimson" Floyd Stadium.
Kickoff for Saturday’s sport is about for two:00 p.m. and can air on ESPN+. Jake Rose and Jeremy Kellum will name the motion within the sales space with Justin Beasley patrolling the sidelines.
The sport may also be heard on-line on the Bearkat Sports activities Community and the Bearkat Athletics app with Carlos Zimmermann and Brian Adams on the decision from the radio sales space. The BSN broadcast may also be heard on-line on GoBearkats.com, the Bearkat Sports activities app and Sirius XM on-line. Moreover, all Bearkat Soccer video games have returned to the airwaves in 2025, aired domestically on KSHU 90.5 FM.
KATS LOOK TO STAY HOT IN FINAL ROAD TRIP OF 2025
– Sam Houston has owned the turnover sport in its two wins, holding a +5 edge in victories over Oregon State and Delaware. The Kats didn’t commit a turnover and are +6 in turnovers in 2025 and +22 in turnovers in three years on the FBS stage. SHSU has had a constructive turnover margin every year since 2022 and has not had a destructive turnover margin since being -5 in 2018
– Landyn Locke acquired the nod at quarterback for Sam Houston, changing into the primary true freshman to start out a sport at quarterback for the Bearkats since Brian Bell began the third sport of the 2010 season towards Gardner-Webb. Locke began slowly, hitting simply two of his first 14 passes for 22 yards earlier than ending the sport by finishing 14 of his final 26 makes an attempt for 191 yards with out an interception
– The Bearkat protection stepped up huge towards Delaware with three takeaways and 10.0 whole TFLs, together with 8.0 sacks of Blue Hen sign caller Nick Minicucci. The Kats had posted simply 5.0 whole sacks within the six video games main as much as the Delaware win, however completed with probably the most sacks in a single sport for the Bearkats since setting this system document with 12.0 sacks towards Nicholls in 2010
– Christopher Eaton Jr. led the best way with 3.5 sacks, probably the most by a Kat since PJ Corridor tied a college document with 4.0 sacks vs McNeese in 2016
– Kicker Christian Pavon was named the CUSA Particular Groups Participant of the Week on Monday after hitting 4/5 area objectives towards Delaware, together with a pair of 48-yarders. The 4 made area objectives had been a profession excessive and one in need of tying an SHSU college document. The overall was solely the third time since 1991 a Bearkat kicker has made 4 area objectives in a single sport
– The win over the Blue Hens offers Sam Houston wins over eight of the 11 opponents at the moment in CUSA for the reason that Bearkats joined the league in 2023. The one present CUSA faculties the Kats haven’t defeated in that point embrace WKU, Jax State and Missouri State
SAM HOUSTON vs THE BLUE RAIDERS
– Saturday will mark solely the fourth assembly between the Bearkats and Blue Raiders and the primary time the Kats have traveled to Murfreesboro for the reason that 1991 FCS playoffs
– The final time SHSU went to Murfreesboro noticed MTSU squeak out a 20-19 win in OT after the Kats missed a pair of additional factors, propelling the Blue Raiders into the quarterfinals of the FCS playoffs
– Sam Houston accomplished a robust end to its 2023 season the final time the groups met, overcoming a fourth-quarter deficit to take down MTSU 23-20 and shut the yr with three wins in its last 4 video games after opening the yr 0-8
THANKFUL FOR NOVEMBER
Within the three seasons the Bearkats have been on the FBS stage they’ve posted a 7-2 document within the month of November. They’re 7-18 in video games performed previous to the calendar turning to November
HOT COCO, PLEASE. SHAKEN, NOT STIRRED.
Coco Brown has been with the Kats since 2023 however entered this season having solely gotten 9 carries and 12 whole touches in his SHSU profession. That has not been the case in 2025 as he has been the best again within the room for the Kats, main the staff with 415 yards on the bottom and 4 touchdowns, posting 100-yard video games vs each UTEP and Delaware. Moreover, he has totaled 31 catches for 180 yards, main the Bearkats in receptions for the yr
HEIST, HEIST BABY
Every time the Bearkat protection will get a takeaway in 2025 the staff breaks out its turnover prop – The Heist Bag – to represent taking away the possession from the opposite staff. Every of the previous two weeks it has been in use greater than any sport this yr because the Kats had a season-high three takeaways in wins over Oregon State and Delaware
The Kats have now gained the turnover battle in six video games this yr, together with every of the final 4 and personal +6 turnover margin for the season
BLOCK PARTY
The Bearkats have 4 whole blocked kicks in 2025, main CUSA. They’re one among six groups within the nation with a minimum of 4 blocked kicks with solely Penn State (5) and Texas Tech (5) having extra
LIVING IN A ONE-SCORE WORLD
After Saturday’s 3-point win over Delaware, every of the final seven wins for the Bearkats relationship again to 2024 have come by seven factors or much less. In whole, 10 of the Bearkats’ 15 victories on the FBS stage have come by seven factors or much less.
Conversely, the Kats have misplaced six video games by seven factors or much less since becoming a member of the FBS with 5 of these coming in 2023. Over the past two seasons, SHSU’s 29-27 loss to Jax State this yr is the one sport determined by one rating or much less to not go within the Kats’ favor
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