Sam Houston routs Nicholls 59-0
Team pages: Nicholls · Sam Houston
Sam Houston routed Nicholls 59-0. Share this game
We had Sam Houston favored. It won.
Next: Nicholls lost to Lamar 49-18, Sat Sep 26
How it swung
Before kickoff, our ratings gave Sam Houston a 67% chance, and the closing betting line (Sam Houston was a 21-point favorite) put it at 95%.
Sam Houston 59-0 Nicholls
Sam Houston wonMove across the chart, or tap a numbered swing, to see any play.Nicholls 0-59 Sam HoustonNicholls lostMove across the chart, or tap a numbered swing, to see any play.No single play moved the chance by 20 points.
No single play moved the chance by 20 points.
How to read this chart
Starts from the pregame line (Sam Houston -21), at 94% for Sam Houston (the play-by-play feed's kickoff number, moved to match the line; our model's and the betting line's own numbers are in “The betting line, and the fans”). Dots are the biggest swings; ticks under the chart are scores.Every drive
Sam Houston scored on 9 of its 15 drives; Nicholls on 0 of its 14.
Sam Houston’s drives are teal, Nicholls’s amber. A line runs from where a drive started to where it ended; a filled dot means it scored.
Box score
Sam Houston 59, Nicholls 0
Sam Houston covered −21 by 38. The total, 59, went over 50.5.
| Team totals | Nicholls | Sam Houston |
|---|---|---|
| Total yards | 163 | 619 |
| Passing | 7 of 23, 39 yds | 22 of 32, 386 yds |
| Rushing | 36 for 124 yds | 43 for 233 yds |
| First downs | 10 | 26 |
| Third down | 1 of 15 | 10 of 17 |
| Fourth down | 0 of 0 | 0 of 0 |
| Turnovers | 3 | 0 |
| Penalties | 7 for 66 yds | 8 for 70 yds |
| Time of possession | 24:29 | 35:31 |
Nicholls leaders
- Passing Ean Rodrigue 7 of 21, 39 yds, 2 INT
- Rushing Tamaj Hoffman 9 for 56 yds; Shane Lee 11 for 37 yds
- Receiving Jordan Smith 2 for 21 yds; Karaaz Johnson 2 for 15 yds
Sam Houston leaders
- Passing Landyn Locke 19 of 28, 322 yds, 4 TD
- Rushing Jerrian Parker 6 for 52 yds; Brett Holloway 8 for 51 yds, 1 TD
- Receiving Kamari Maxwell 2 for 86 yds, 1 TD; Tim Burns Jr. 1 for 65 yds, 1 TD
No rain and calm
93° at kickoff · no rain recorded · wind 8 mph from the southeast, mostly at an angle to the field, gusts to 18
Drag along the chart, or step through the game.
Where this weather comes from
Measured at Huntsville Municipal Airport, 3.5 miles away. Rain is NOAA's radar-and-gauge estimate at the stadium and wind is an airport reading; neither is measured on the field. Game times come from the play-by-play, good to a minute or two. Source: National Weather Service, through the Iowa Environmental Mesonet; rain radar from NOAA MRMS, through Iowa State University. Field direction from OpenStreetMap contributors.Before kickoff
Recent games, the series and the betting line below are as they stood going in; the season profile is the season so far.
Recent games
Last three games
Nicholls · 2-1
Rated 204th in our preseason ratings, 194th now.
2-1 in its last three, capped by a 3-point win over UT Rio Grande Valley as a 5.5-point underdog.
W 31-28 vs UT Rio Grande Valley #143 of 668
won by 3 as a 5.5-point underdog
W 44-10 vs Mississippi Valley State #253 of 668
won by 34 as a 28.5-point favorite
Week by week
Sam Houston
- Wk 1Lat Troy21-24
- Wk 2Lvs Tulsa17-23
Nicholls
- Wk 1Wvs Mississippi Valley State44-10
- Wk 1Lat Kansas State3-71
- Wk 2Wvs UT Rio Grande Valley31-28
Power rating by week
Sam Houston is rated 1.9 points ahead as of week 2. Our power rating by week; higher is better.
The series
Sam Houston leads the series 11-3
14 meetings since 2003 · Sam Houston won the last meeting
- 2019Sam Houston 17-0
- 2018Nicholls 27-7
- 2017Sam Houston 66-17
- 2016Sam Houston 38-21
- 2015Sam Houston 37-7
Line, fans and home field
The betting line, and the fans
Our model and the betting line don’t fully agree on Sam Houston’s chances here.
Sam Houston favored by 21 · Total 50.5
How games like this usually go
Sam Houston by 21, and it went to form
Half of games8 in 10 gamesThis game
The band is where a favorite’s chance ran in the 251 games since 2025 with a favorite of 14.5 to 21.5 points.
The market
The spread moved 3.5 points toward Sam Houston.
The total rose 1 point.
Spread: −17.5 → −21 · Total: 49.5 → 50.5
The books’ cut: 4.7%, the margin built into the odds
Weather at kickoff
Hot and dry. Feels like 91° at kickoff.
Nicholls at Sam Houston · Saturday, Sept. 19, 2026 · Elliott T. Bowers Stadium, Huntsville
- 91°feels like at kickoff
- Dryno rain at kickoff
- 71weather score, Rough
- 3rdbest of the day's 8 kickoff times
At kickoff, Sept. 19, 2026.
Weather score: 0 to 100, higher is better, for the first 3 hours and 20 minutes of the game. Ideal is 100, Comfortable 90 to 99, Mixed 75 to 89, Rough 50 to 74, Harsh under 50.
Kickoff times that Saturday
Games in this time zone used 8 kickoff times that day, local time (kickoffs within 30 minutes of each other count as one). This game, ringed, was the third best of the day's eight kickoff times. At Elliott T. Bowers Stadium that day, a 7 pm kickoff would have scored 80, against 71 at 6 pm.
- 11 am: 60, Rough
- 11:45 am: 57, Rough
- 1 pm: 55, Rough
- 2:30 pm: 52, Rough
- 3:30 pm: 53, Rough
- 6 pm: 71, Rough (this game)
- 6:30 pm: 78, Mixed
- 7 pm: 80, Mixed
Weather score at each kickoff time.
Tap a dot to read that kickoff time.
At kickoff, Sept. 19, 2026. Wind is not drawn here; gusts are in each score.
Home field
Sam Houston is worth +8.4 points (±5.3) more at home than on the road since 2018 — top tenth of FBS, 98th percentile.
57% at home, 22% on the road against FBS opponents (8-6 home, 5-18 away).
Our model gives every stadium the same flat 2.3-point home edge (why); the books use about 3. Against the closing line this stadium reads -2.1 at home vs. away over 40 games — inside the ±10.0 noise, so the flat number is the honest one here.
Night kickoff — historically worth about half a point more to the home side against the number, and not much more than that. The visitors travel about 290 miles to get here.