Aug. 19, 2026, 7:49 p.m. PT<\/p>\n
Believe it or not, we are now just 10 days away<\/a> from USC\u2019s season opener. The Trojans<\/a> will kick off their 2026 campaign a week from Saturday when they host San Jose State at the Coliseum.<\/p>\n We now know who will be starting at quarterback for the Spartans<\/a> when they visit Los Angeles. On Wednesday, Pete Thamel of ESPN reported<\/a> that San Jose State plans to start Hawaii<\/a> transfer Luke Weaver under center against USC.<\/p>\n After three years at the junior college level, Weaver spent last season with the Rainbow Warriors. He appeared in five games, completing 60% of his passes for 628 yards, six touchdowns, and three interceptions. Weaver transferred to San Jose State this past offseason.<\/p>\n Weaver will be the first opposing quarterback to go up against Gary Patterson\u2019s USC defense. Patterson, the longtime TCU head coach, was hired as the Trojans<\/a>\u2019 defensive coordinator in January.<\/p>\n Kickoff between USC and San Jose State is set for 12:00 p.m. Pacific time on August 29.<\/p>\n Need a news break? Check out the all new PLAY hub with puzzles, games and more!<\/a><\/p>\n Contact\/Follow\u00a0@TrojansWire<\/a>\u00a0on X (formerly Twitter) and like our page on\u00a0Facebook<\/a>\u00a0to follow ongoing coverage of\u00a0USC Trojans<\/a>\u00a0news, notes and opinion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Aug. 19, 2026, 7:49 p.m. PT Believe it or not, we are now just 10 days away from…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":438039,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[243,88,90,89,129117,91058,13081,5727,5725,507,65397,1350,506,173749,173748,173747,25943,32753,9202,83608,377,108690,173750,76537,58273,246],"class_list":["post-438038","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-jose","tag-accessfree","tag-san-jose","tag-san-jose-headlines","tag-san-jose-news","tag-sourcetrojans-wire","tag-sstssportscollegetrojansfootball","tag-sstsnfootball","tag-tagbig-10-hub","tag-tagbig-ten-conference-football","tag-tagcalifornia-gold-rush","tag-tagcgr-sports","tag-tagcollege-sports","tag-tagespn-inc","tag-taggary-patterson","tag-taghawaii-rainbow-warriors","tag-taghawaii-rainbow-warriors-football","tag-tagncaa-big-ten-conference","tag-tagsan-jose-state-spartans","tag-tagsan-jose-state-spartans-football","tag-tagsouthern-california-trojans-football","tag-tagsports-news","tag-tagtcu-horned-frogs","tag-tagtexas-christian-horned-frogs-football","tag-taguniversity-of-southern-california","tag-tagusc-trojans","tag-typestory"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438038","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=438038"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438038\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/438039"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=438038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=438038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=438038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}