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Delaware football at Jacksonville State live updates: Blue Hens, Gamecocks on ESPN at 7

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  • The University of Delaware football team will face Jacksonville State on October 15 in a Conference USA matchup.
  • Delaware is looking to rebound from a close loss to Western Kentucky where several mistakes proved costly.
  • Delaware enters the game with the second-ranked offense in the conference, excelling in scoring and passing yards.

Twelve days after victory eluded the mistake-prone Blue Hens, they’ll try again to show they’re up to the task of Conference USA football the night of Oct. 15.

Delaware (3-2 overall, 1-1 CUSA) and Jacksonville State (3-3, 2-0) tangle at AmFirst Stadium in Alabama.

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Kickoff is at 7 p.m. on ESPN. A Delaware win would leave Kennesaw State as the only CUSA team unbeaten in league play.

The Gamecocks are defending CUSA champions, having made a quick climb to the top in their second FBS-level season in 2024 after moving up from FCS.

Delaware, an FBS/CUSA rookie this year, is attempting to make a favorable first impression also.

The Hens did that in the 27-24 loss to highly regarded Western Kentucky Oct. 3 at Delaware Stadium but were doomed by an interception the Hilltoppers returned for a touchdown, a fumble on a potential TD run and a missed game-tying field goal.

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“Not a person on our team went into that game wanting to do anything other than win that football game,” Delaware coach Ryan Carty said. “Being able to say that we went toe to toe with a team that’s been really good at this level, I guess if you asked me that preseason, I would have been very happy with where we were at that point.

“Leaving that field, that was not the feeling. It was we had the ability to win that game multiple times, and we didn’t put it away, and we didn’t get the job done.”

Another chance looms at Jacksonville State, where Delaware won a 2021 spring FCS quarterfinal playoff.

Under first-year coach Charles Kelly, the Gamecocks are No. 3 in the FBS averaging 279.5 rushing yards per game. TCU transfer Cam Cook leads the nation with 832 rushing yards and 138.7 per game.

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Delaware arrives with some qualities of its own, including being No. 2 in the CUSA in scoring (29.6 points per game), total offense (424.4 ypg) and passing offense (278.6 ypg).

“They’ve been very good on both sides of the ball,” Kelly said of the Hens. “Offensively, they give you a lot of different formations, make you adjust to a lot of things. They execute very well. The quarterback plays very well. He’s very efficient. They have a good run game. They’re very good on the offensive line. They probably have the best tight ends that we’ve seen this year.”

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Middletown High grad and UD red-shirt sophomore Anwar O’neal is second among CUSA offensive tackles in overall offensive grade . . . Delaware is No. 1 in CUSA in return yardage on both kickoffs (26.8-yard average) and punts (20.3) . . . Mysonne Pollard’s 30.3-yard kick return average leads CUSA and is fourth nationally . . . Delaware has gone 3-and-out on just 8.2 percent of its possessions, the 12th best figure in FBS and No. 1 in CUSA . . . The Hens’ 2.61 points per possession is also best in the league . . . Delaware is 9-2 in night games under Carty . . . Hens are 21-0 under Carty when winning the turnover margin . . . Jacksonville State has won eight home games in a row . . . After the 2023 and 2024 seasons, the Gamecocks were the first team to reach bowls in their first two FBS years since Marshall in 1997 and 1998.

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Serious crash closes I-95 northbound in Newark, Delaware

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Police have shut down Interstate 95 northbound in Newark, Delaware, after a serious crash on Friday.

SkyForce10 was over the scene on Friday, November 7, 2025, and several vehicles, including a tractor-trailer, could be seen involved in this incident.

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Delaware State Police are advising travelers in the area to seek alternative routes while they investigate.

NBC10 is working to find out if anyone was injured in this crash.

This is a developing story; check back for updates.

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Trump Judge Declines to Appoint His Pick as Delaware US Attorney

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A Trump-appointed judge in Delaware has declined to appoint the president’s interim US attorney to head the office in the state on an ongoing basis.

Chief Judge Colm Connolly posted a notice dated Thursday that the US District Court for the District of Delaware “declines to exercise its authority” to appoint a US attorney for the district. Connolly notes that the term of current interim US Attorney Julianne Murray expires Nov. 11, without referring to her by name.

Connolly had signaled he didn’t intend to defer to the administration’s choice of Murray, a former Delaware GOP party chair, by soliciting …



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Kensington outreach group travels to Wilmington, Del. to look for lost homeless they helped

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The City of Philadelphia has been working to clean up Kensington for several years now, but in the process, people who once lived on the streets there are moving to other cities. And, outreach groups are losing track of the people they were working to take care of.

NBC10’s Johnny Archer went out with one group, Operation Save Our City, on Wednesday night as they tried to search for missing people in Wilmington, Delaware.

“I’m trying to figure how many of my folks from Kensington ended up here,” said Rosalind  Pichardo.

The outreach group said they are concerned because some of the folks who have gone missing won’t get the resources they need.

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The group went to a homeless encampment in the Christina Park neighborhood of Wilmington and handed out bananas and Narcan.

“This current drug supply is so dangerous,” Pichardo said. “Other cities might not know how to deal with detox and withdrawal from this current drug supply, and if we get folks back home to deal with their condition, they have a chance to survive.”

Since the City of Philadelphia started cleaning up Kensington under Mayor Cherelle Parker’s administration, many unhoused people have left Philadelphia.

NBC10 investigators reported last month that the City of Philadelphia was buying one-way bus tickets to send unhoused people out of the city.

A program from the city that buys one-way bus tickets for Philadelphia’s unhoused population is using taxpayer money to fund it. NBC10 investigative reporter Claudia Vargas looks into the reasons why.

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But neighboring communities are  feeling the impact.

Wilmington Mayor John Carney said his city is one of them.

“It’s just not right for these other places to send their folks to Wilmington,” Carney said last week. “The constant influx from cities and towns makes it hard for us to care for the population here. And most importantly, it’s unfair for the city residents who live in these neighborhoods.”

Pichardo said the solution to cleaning up Kensington should not be sending people some place else.

“This certainly can’t be the solution to cleaning up Kensington,” she said. “Rerouting people to other cities to make it another city’s problem.”

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NBC10 reached out to Mayor Parker’s office on this issue and has not yet heard back.

Operation Save Our City said they did not find any of the people they were looking for on Wednesday night, but they will be back on Thursday to continue their search.



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