{"id":193848,"date":"2026-02-25T23:44:13","date_gmt":"2026-02-25T23:44:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/193848\/"},"modified":"2026-02-25T23:44:13","modified_gmt":"2026-02-25T23:44:13","slug":"usc-trojans-to-open-2026-season-against-the-san-jose-state-spartans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/193848\/","title":{"rendered":"USC Trojans to open 2026 season against the San Jose State Spartans"},"content":{"rendered":"

The USC Trojans<\/a> will open their 2026 college football season with a Week Zero matchup against the San Jose State Spartans<\/a>, the school announced today.<\/p>\n

That game will take place on Saturday, August 29 at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum. No kickoff time was announced.<\/p>\n

San Jose State head coach Ken Niumatalolo is in his third season with the Spartans and is coming off a 3-9 season. USC is 6-0 all-time against San Jose State. The closest game was a 10-point Trojan win back in 2000. <\/p>\n

The two teams met previously for the first game of the 2023 season in a 56-28 win by the Trojans. USC quarterback Caleb Williams threw four touchdown passes and true freshman Zachariah Branch scored touchdowns receiving and on a kickoff return.<\/p>\n

USC\u2019s 2026 football schedule is now complete (Note: All Big Ten dates are not completely locked in as a potential shift to a Friday night game exists). The order of opponents is:<\/p>\n

August 29 \u2013 San Jose State<\/p>\n

September 5 \u2013 Fresno State<\/a><\/p>\n

September 12 \u2013 Louisiana<\/a><\/p>\n

September 19 \u2013 At Rutgers<\/a><\/p>\n

September 26 \u2013 Oregon<\/a><\/p>\n

October 3 \u2013 Washington<\/a><\/p>\n

October 10 \u2013 At Penn State<\/a><\/p>\n

October 17 \u2013 BYE<\/p>\n

October 24 \u2013 At Wisconsin<\/a><\/p>\n

October 31 \u2013 Ohio State<\/a><\/p>\n

November 7 \u2013 BYE<\/p>\n

November 14 \u2013 At Indiana<\/a><\/p>\n

November 21 \u2013 Maryland<\/a><\/p>\n

November 28 \u2013 At UCLA<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The USC Trojans will open their 2026 college football season with a Week Zero matchup against the San…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":193849,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[10157,88,90,89],"class_list":{"0":"post-193848","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-jose","8":"tag-regwall","9":"tag-san-jose","10":"tag-san-jose-headlines","11":"tag-san-jose-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193848","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=193848"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193848\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/193849"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}