{"id":194374,"date":"2026-02-26T06:38:15","date_gmt":"2026-02-26T06:38:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/194374\/"},"modified":"2026-02-26T06:38:15","modified_gmt":"2026-02-26T06:38:15","slug":"usc-to-open-2026-season-in-week-zero-against-san-jose-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/194374\/","title":{"rendered":"USC to open 2026 season in Week Zero against San Jose State"},"content":{"rendered":"

The USC Trojans will open the 2026 season in Week Zero against the San Jose State Spartans, the school announced<\/a> Wednesday.<\/p>\n

USC will host San Jose State at Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum in Los Angeles, Calif., on Saturday, Aug. 29, 2026. The game will mark only the seventh meeting between the two California schools on the gridiron.<\/p>\n

USC and San Jose State first met in 1995 and played most recently in Week Zero of the 2023 season. All six previous contests were played in Los Angeles, and the Trojans currently own a 6-0 advantage in the series.<\/p>\n

In other non-conference action in 2026, USC is slated to host the Fresno State Bulldogs on Sept. 5, followed by the Louisiana Ragin\u2019 Cajuns on Sept. 12.<\/p>\n

USC\u2019s complete Big Ten football schedule for 2026 was revealed last month<\/a>. The Trojans will host Maryland, Ohio State, Oregon, and Washington and will visit Indiana, Penn State, Rutgers, UCLA, and Wisconsin.<\/p>\n

Below is USC\u2019s complete schedule for the 2026 season, plus a link to its schedule page which will be updated with kickoff times and TV as they are announced:<\/p>\n

2026 USC Football Schedule<\/a><\/p>\n

08\/29 \u2013 San Jose State
09\/05 \u2013 Fresno State
09\/12 \u2013 Louisiana
09\/19 \u2013 at Rutgers*
09\/26 \u2013 Oregon*
10\/03 \u2013 Washington*
10\/10 \u2013 at Penn State*
10\/17 \u2013 OFF
10\/24 \u2013 at Wisconsin*
10\/31 \u2013 Ohio State*
11\/07 \u2013 OFF
11\/14 \u2013 at Indiana*
11\/21 \u2013 Maryland*
11\/28 \u2013 at UCLA*<\/p>\n

* Big Ten contest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The USC Trojans will open the 2026 season in Week Zero against the San Jose State Spartans, the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":194375,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[88,90,89,996,3533],"class_list":{"0":"post-194374","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","11":"tag-san-jose-state","12":"tag-usc"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194374","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=194374"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194374\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/194375"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}