{"id":447321,"date":"2026-08-29T15:38:11","date_gmt":"2026-08-29T15:38:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/447321\/"},"modified":"2026-08-29T15:38:11","modified_gmt":"2026-08-29T15:38:11","slug":"san-jose-state-usc-preview-week-0-kickoff-set-for-saturday-in-la-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/447321\/","title":{"rendered":"San Jose State-USC preview: Week 0 kickoff set for Saturday in LA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mercurynews.com\/2026\/08\/27\/san-jose-state-spread-shed-college-football-stutzmann-mountain-west\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">SAN JOSE STATE<\/a> AT No. 14 SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA<\/p>\n<p>Records: Season opener for both teams<\/p>\n<p>Kickoff: Noon Saturday at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum<\/p>\n<p>TV: NBC<\/p>\n<p>Series history: USC leads 6-0. All six previous meetings have been played at the Coliseum. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mercurynews.com\/2023\/08\/26\/san-jose-state-keeps-pace-with-no-6-usc-early-but-upset-bid-falls-short-in-opener\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">USC won the most recent matchup 56-28<\/a> to open the 2023 season.<\/p>\n<p>SJSU storylines: The Spartans will have a new starting quarterback in redshirt senior <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mercurynews.com\/2026\/08\/06\/luke-weaver-san-jose-state-quarterback-wide-receivers-robert-mcdaniel-daniel-rolovich\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Luke Weaver<\/a>, who won a three-way competition with Daniel Rolovich and Robert McDaniel. \u2026 Weaver transferred to SJSU from Hawaii and will make his first start for the Spartans. \u2026 SJSU has 48 new players on its 102-player roster, including 33 transfers. Only three players on the roster started at least six games last year.<\/p>\n<p>USC storylines: The Trojans are coming off a 9-4 season in their second year in the Big Ten. \u2026 Quarterback Jayden Maiava returns after throwing for 3,711 yards and 24 touchdowns last season. \u2026 Former TCU head coach Gary Patterson takes over as USC\u2019s defensive coordinator.<\/p>\n<p>Stats that matter: USC averaged 35.8 points and 465.5 total yards per game last season, including 296 passing yards per game. \u2026 San Jose State allowed 255.2 passing yards per game in 2025, ranking 114th in the Football Bowl Subdivision. Their 8.53 yards per attempt allowed was fifth-worst in FBS. \u2026 The Spartans last beat a Big Ten team on Sept. 21, 2002, when they won 38-35 at Illinois. Their last road win over a ranked team was Nov. 1, 1980, when they beat No. 10\/11 Baylor 30-22. \u2026 Weaver played in five games for Hawaii in 2025, completing 63 passes for 628 yards and six touchdowns, including the winning score in the Hawaii Bowl against Cal. \u2026 Temperatures are expected to be in the 90s in Los Angeles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SAN JOSE STATE AT No. 14 SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA Records: Season opener for both teams Kickoff: Noon Saturday at&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":447322,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[7,1471,1327,23,266,88,90,89,198,127],"class_list":["post-447321","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-jose","tag-california","tag-central-coast","tag-college-sports","tag-local-news","tag-northern-california","tag-san-jose","tag-san-jose-headlines","tag-san-jose-news","tag-santa-clara-county","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447321","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=447321"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447321\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/447322"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=447321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=447321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=447321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}