{"id":454465,"date":"2026-09-05T12:04:25","date_gmt":"2026-09-05T12:04:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/454465\/"},"modified":"2026-09-05T12:04:25","modified_gmt":"2026-09-05T12:04:25","slug":"luke-weavers-third-touchdown-pass-lifts-san-jose-state-over-eastern-michigan-27-21-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/454465\/","title":{"rendered":"Luke Weaver’s third touchdown pass lifts San Jose State over Eastern Michigan 27-21"},"content":{"rendered":"

YPSILANTI, Mich. (AP) \u2014 Luke Weaver<\/a> threw three touchdown passes, two to Cooper Hoch<\/a>, 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<\/a> near the San Jose State goal line and Bryce Llewellyn<\/a> 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<\/a> 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<\/a> led the ground game with 119 yards.<\/p>\n

Noah Kim<\/a> 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<\/a> 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<\/a> 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

Up next<\/p>\n

San Jose State: Cal Poly visits on Sept. 12.<\/p>\n

Eastern Michigan: at Michigan State<\/a> on Sept. 12. \u2014-<\/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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"YPSILANTI, Mich. (AP) \u2014 Luke Weaver threw three touchdown passes, two to Cooper Hoch, and San Jose State…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":454466,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[179513,1321,179511,13678,81064,179516,179515,179517,112475,177141,179512,88,90,89,997,179514],"class_list":["post-454465","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-jose","tag-bryce-llewellyn","tag-college-football","tag-cooper-hoch","tag-eastern-michigan-eagles","tag-event_recap","tag-harold-mack","tag-jabari-bates","tag-jase-nix","tag-luke-weaver","tag-noah-kim","tag-ronn-hardin","tag-san-jose","tag-san-jose-headlines","tag-san-jose-news","tag-san-jose-state-spartans","tag-trajan-sinatra"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454465","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=454465"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454465\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/454466"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=454465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=454465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=454465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}