Aug. 31, 2026, 5:53 p.m. PT<\/p>\n
On Saturday, USC opened up its 2026 season by\u00a0handling San Jose State 42-26 at the Coliseum<\/a>. With the victory, the\u00a0Trojans<\/a>\u00a0started off the year 1-0.<\/p>\n One of the talking points following the game had nothing to do with what happened on the field itself, but rather in the crowd. Due to extremely hot temperatures, an early kickoff, and not exactly a marquee opponent, the Trojans<\/a> drew their lowest attendance in nearly eight years.<\/p>\n On Sunday, USC issued a statement to USA TODAY<\/a> regarding the Coliseum crowd.<\/p>\n \u201cWe understand the factors that impacted Saturday\u2019s attendance,\u201d the statement read. \u201cWe have high expectations and a premier home schedule this season, and we know the competitive advantage an electric Coliseum atmosphere can provide our program. We thank our fans who showed up Saturday and look forward to seeing increased attendance the rest of the season.\u201d<\/p>\n The good news is that the factors that played into Saturday\u2019s low attendance should not be a problem the rest of the season. The bad news, however, is that the Trojans play a Friday game this week against Fresno State<\/a>, which also typically tend to draw smaller crowds.<\/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. 31, 2026, 5:53 p.m. PT On Saturday, USC opened up its 2026 season by\u00a0handling San Jose State…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":449650,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[243,88,90,89,129117,91058,13081,5727,5725,507,65397,3143,1350,11986,3390,129118,25943,32753,9202,83608,377,76537,58273,246],"class_list":["post-449649","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-football","tag-tagcollege-sports","tag-tagfootball","tag-tagfresno-state-bulldogs-football","tag-taglincoln-riley","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-taguniversity-of-southern-california","tag-tagusc-trojans","tag-typestory"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449649","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=449649"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449649\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/449650"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=449649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=449649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=449649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}