{"id":193588,"date":"2026-02-25T20:29:22","date_gmt":"2026-02-25T20:29:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/193588\/"},"modified":"2026-02-25T20:29:22","modified_gmt":"2026-02-25T20:29:22","slug":"usc-football-to-open-2026-season-against-san-jose-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/193588\/","title":{"rendered":"USC Football to Open 2026 Season Against San Jos\u00e9 State"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LOS ANGELES \u2014\u00a0USC Football will open the 2026 season with a Week Zero matchup against San Jos\u00e9 State on Aug. 29 in the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum, the athletic department announced today (Feb. 25).\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Spartans, led by head coach Ken Niumatalolo, will visit Southern California for the seventh time in program history. USC holds a 6-0 all-time record over San Jos\u00e9 State, with each game occurring in the Coliseum. In the teams&#8217; most recent encounter, the Trojans defeated the Spartans 56-28 to open the 2023 season.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Trojans are 37-1-1 versus teams from the Mountain West (not including 2 wins vacated due to NCAA penalty; original record: 39-1-1).<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LOS ANGELES \u2014\u00a0USC Football will open the 2026 season with a Week Zero matchup against San Jos\u00e9 State&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":193589,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[88,90,89],"class_list":{"0":"post-193588","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-jose","8":"tag-san-jose","9":"tag-san-jose-headlines","10":"tag-san-jose-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193588","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=193588"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193588\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/193589"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}