Cooper Hoch tallied 115 receiving yards and two scores, while the Spartans defense held the Eagles to 25 yards in the fourth quarter to complete the comeback.<\/p>\n
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YPSILANTI, Mich. (AP) Luke Weaver threw three touchdown passes, two to Cooper Hoch, and San Jose State<\/a> rallied in the fourth quarter to defeat Eastern Michigan<\/a> 27-21 on Friday night.<\/p>\n Eastern Michigan took a 21-17 lead into the final quarter after Weaver fumbled on a sack by Ronn Hardin near the San Jose State goal line and Bryce Llewellyn recovered the loose bal.<\/p>\n Weaver then rallied the Spartans and his 40-yard touchdown pass to Hoch put the Spartans (1-1) back ahead 24-21 with about 11 minutes remaining. Their defense held Eastern Michigan to 25 yards in the fourth quarter and Trajan Sinatra’s 49-yard field goal in the final two minutes wrapped up the scoring.<\/p>\n Weaver completed 23 of 39 passes for 316 yards and was intercepted once. Hoch had 115 receiving yards and Jabari Bates led the ground game with 119 yards.<\/p>\n Noah Kim had 174 yards passing with a touchdown for the Eagles (1-1). He threw one interception.<\/p>\n Eastern Michigan scored first when Kim hit Harold Mack with a short touchdown pass six minutes into the second quarter. The Spartans rallied with a 27-yard touchdown pass from Weaver to Jase Nix and a 45-yard field goal by Sinatra on the final play of the half for a 10-7 lead.<\/p>\n The matchup was the first in the regular season between the two teams. Previously, Eastern Michigan defeated San Jose State in the 1987 California Bowl and the 2022 Potato Bowl.<\/p>\n San Jose State: Cal Poly visits on Sept. 12.<\/p>\n Eastern Michigan: at Michigan State on Sept. 12. —<\/p>\n Sign up for Top 25 poll alerts here, visit the Top 25 here and see AP\u2019s full college football coverage here<\/p>\n \n Copyright 2026 STATS LLC and Associated Press. Any commercial use or distribution without the express written consent of STATS LLC and Associated Press is strictly prohibited.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cooper Hoch tallied 115 receiving yards and two scores, while the Spartans defense held the Eagles to 25…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":454374,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[1321,13678,88,90,89,997],"class_list":["post-454373","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-jose","tag-college-football","tag-eastern-michigan-eagles","tag-san-jose","tag-san-jose-headlines","tag-san-jose-news","tag-san-jose-state-spartans"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454373","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=454373"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454373\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/454374"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=454373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=454373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=454373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}