{"id":454199,"date":"2026-09-05T06:08:12","date_gmt":"2026-09-05T06:08:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/454199\/"},"modified":"2026-09-05T06:08:12","modified_gmt":"2026-09-05T06:08:12","slug":"fresno-state-shutout-by-usc-39-0-to-start-2026-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/454199\/","title":{"rendered":"Fresno State shutout by USC 39-0 to start 2026 season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">LOS ANGELES (KFSN) &#8212; Fresno State&#8217;s first official game as a Pac-12 member is one to forget, as the USC Trojans shut out the Bulldogs 39-0.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The No. 14 team in the nation held the Bulldogs to 49 yards through three quarters (116 total), forced an interception, a fumble and two safeties.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Former Buchanan grad Jayden Mandal completed 7\/15 of his throws for 77 yards, with over half of that total yardage coming in the final drive of the game.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Fresno State&#8217;s rushing attack also struggled, only gaining 39 yards on 29 attempts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Heisman hopeful Jayden Maiava threw for 349 yards, three touchdowns and had two incompletions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The last time Fresno State beat USC was in 1992.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Up next, Fresno State will host this season&#8217;s home opener against Sacramento State on Sept. 12. Kickoff is set for 7:30 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2026 KFSN-TV. All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LOS ANGELES (KFSN) &#8212; Fresno State&#8217;s first official game as a Pac-12 member is one to forget, as&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":454200,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[179412,112,114,113,179411,115,179197,294],"class_list":["post-454199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fresno","tag-179412","tag-fresno","tag-fresno-headlines","tag-fresno-news","tag-fresno-state-final-score","tag-fresno-state-football","tag-fresno-state-usc","tag-timely"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454199","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=454199"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454199\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/454200"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=454199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=454199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=454199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}