{"id":449025,"date":"2026-08-31T17:26:35","date_gmt":"2026-08-31T17:26:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/449025\/"},"modified":"2026-08-31T17:26:35","modified_gmt":"2026-08-31T17:26:35","slug":"fresno-state-vs-no-14-usc-odds-2026-college-football-picks-week-1-predictions-from-proven-model","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/449025\/","title":{"rendered":"Fresno State vs. No. 14 USC odds: 2026 college football picks, Week 1 predictions from proven model"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Content on this page may include affiliate links. If you click and sign up\/place a wager, we may receive compensation at no cost to you.<\/p>\n<p><img src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/jayden-maiava-cbs.jpg\" alt=\"&lt;p&gt;Jayden Maiava, USC&lt;\/p&gt;\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"xh8yej3 xt7dq6l\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"x1n2onr6 x1ghz6dp xexx8yu x1uhho1l x1xpa7k\" style=\"font-family:industrie-standard;letter-spacing:0.01em;padding-bottom:0;font-size:1rem;font-weight:400;line-height:1.4\">The 14th-ranked USC Trojans look to make it two in a row to start the season when they battle the Fresno State Bulldogs in a Week 1 college football non-conference matchup on Friday night. Fresno State, now a member of the Pac-12, finished tied for fifth with Hawaii at 5-3 in the Mountain West and were 9-4 overall in 2025. USC, which tied for fourth in the Big Ten with Michigan at 7-2, were 9-4 overall a year ago. USC has won five of six all-time meetings, including a 45-17 win in 2022.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Content on this page may include affiliate links. If you click and sign up\/place a wager, we may&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":449026,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[112,114,113],"class_list":["post-449025","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fresno","tag-fresno","tag-fresno-headlines","tag-fresno-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449025","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=449025"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449025\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/449026"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=449025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=449025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=449025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}