{"id":453405,"date":"2026-09-04T14:28:37","date_gmt":"2026-09-04T14:28:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/453405\/"},"modified":"2026-09-04T14:28:37","modified_gmt":"2026-09-04T14:28:37","slug":"san-jose-state-eastern-michigan-preview-stats-to-know-before-kickoff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/453405\/","title":{"rendered":"San Jose State-Eastern Michigan preview: Stats to know before kickoff"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mercurynews.com\/2026\/09\/03\/san-jose-state-spartans-eastern-michigan-usc-weaver-mountain-west\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">SAN JOSE STATE AT EASTERN MICHIGAN<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Records: San Jose State (0-1, 0-0 Mountain West),\u00a0Eastern Michigan (1-0, 0-0 Mid-American)<\/p>\n<p>Kickoff: 3:30 (Pacific) at Rynearson Stadium, Ypsilanti, Michigan.<\/p>\n<p>TV: ESPN+<\/p>\n<p>Series History: EMU leads 2-0, winning the 2022 Famous Idaho Potato Bowl and the 1987 California Bowl.<\/p>\n<p>San Jose State storylines: This is the first time SJSU has started the season with back-to-back road games since 2011. \u2026 SJSU head coach Ken Niumatalolo is 2-0 against EMU as an assistant coach at Navy. \u2026 Quarterback Luke Weaver will make his second start for the Spartans after producing three touchdowns in the opener, including a rushing TD. \u2026 The Spartans outscored USC 26-14 in the second half in their opener last weekend.<\/p>\n<p>EMU storylines: Eastern Michigan\u2019s defense held Sacramento State to 34 total yards in the first half. \u2026 The Eagles are hosting California teams in back-to-back games for the first time in school history. \u2026 EMU quarterback Noah Kim is tied for fourth in program history with three games featuring three total touchdowns.<\/p>\n<p>Stats that matter: SJSU is 1-4 against MAC schools. \u2026 SJSU allowed 505 total yards to USC. \u2026 EMU allowed 271 total yards to Sac State. \u2026 EMU committed one turnover while SJSU had zero. \u2026 Both teams had passing plays that went 40+ yards. \u2026 EMU went one for three on red zone conversions, while SJSU went one for four.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SAN JOSE STATE AT EASTERN MICHIGAN Records: San Jose State (0-1, 0-0 Mountain West),\u00a0Eastern Michigan (1-0, 0-0 Mid-American)&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":453406,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[88,90,89,179159],"class_list":["post-453405","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-jose","tag-san-jose","tag-san-jose-headlines","tag-san-jose-news","tag-the-spartans-open-a-season-with-consecutive-road-games-for-the-first-time-since-2011"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/453405","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=453405"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/453405\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/453406"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=453405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=453405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=453405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}