{"id":484095,"date":"2026-10-03T17:40:46","date_gmt":"2026-10-03T17:40:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/484095\/"},"modified":"2026-10-03T17:40:46","modified_gmt":"2026-10-03T17:40:46","slug":"what-to-know-before-san-jose-state-kicks-off-at-hawaii-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/484095\/","title":{"rendered":"What to know before San Jose State kicks off at Hawaii"},"content":{"rendered":"

SAN JOSE STATE AT HAWAII<\/a><\/p>\n

Records: San Jose State<\/a> (2-2, 0-0 Mountain West<\/a>), Hawaii (1-3, 0-2 Mountain West)<\/p>\n

Kickoff: 9 p.m. Saturday at Clarence T.C. Ching Athletics Complex, Honolulu<\/p>\n

TV: MW+<\/p>\n

Series history: San Jose State leads 24-22-1. The Spartans beat Hawaii 45-38<\/a> at home last season. San Jose State won the first meeting 13-8 in 1936. The last time the Spartans faced Hawaii in Honolulu was in 2023, when they shut out the Rainbow Warriors 35-0.<\/p>\n

San Jose State storylines: The Spartans have won their last five games against Hawaii dating to 2020. \u2026 San Jose State has expanded its rushing attack, with 136 rushing attempts through four games after having 317 combined rushing attempts last season. \u2026 Linebacker Dylan Lee ranks third in the Mountain West with 35 tackles and is 24th nationally. \u2026 The Spartans have five players from Hawaii. \u2026 Quarterback Luke Weaver is coming off a four-interception game but will return to face his former team. He leads the Mountain West with 1,032 passing yards and nine touchdowns. \u2026 Defensive lineman Jeremiah Tuiileila was named to the PFF Group of Five Team of the Week. \u2026 Running back Jabari Bates leads the Mountain West with 413 rushing yards. \u2026 San Jose State went winless on the road in conference play last season. Its last Mountain West road win came in October 2024, when the Spartans won 24-14 at Wyoming<\/a>. \u2026 The Spartans are coming off a 26-10 loss to Fresno State before their bye week.<\/p>\n

Hawaii storylines: The last time the Rainbow Warriors beat the Spartans was in 2019, when Hawaii emerged with a 42-40 victory in a game in which neither team punted<\/a>. \u2026 Before the Spartans\u2019 current five-game winning streak, Hawaii had won 14 of the previous 18 meetings. \u2026 Quarterback Micah Alejado needs 289 passing yards to reach 5,000 for his career. He ranks second nationally with 27.3 pass completions per game. \u2026 Receiver Tama Uiliata ranks second in the conference with 24 catches. \u2026 The Rainbow Warriors are coming off a 27-10 loss to Wyoming.<\/p>\n

Stats that matter: San Jose State is 3-11 in Mountain West conference openers dating back to 2013. \u2026 San Jose State allowed 397 yards against Fresno State, while the Bulldogs held the Spartans to 227 total yards. \u2026 Hawaii has committed three turnovers this season, while San Jose State has committed seven. \u2026 The Spartans have scored in each of their last 13 quarters against Hawaii. \u2026 San Jose State has trailed at the start of each of its last four games and has not scored in the first quarter during that span. \u2026 The Spartans are averaging 146.3 rushing yards per game, while Hawaii is averaging 83.3.<\/p>\n

\u2014 Haddy Barghouti<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SAN JOSE STATE AT HAWAII Records: San Jose State (2-2, 0-0 Mountain West), Hawaii (1-3, 0-2 Mountain West)…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":484096,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[184,7,1327,949,402,181,88,90,89,997,6345,198,200,127],"class_list":["post-484095","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-jose","tag-bay-area","tag-california","tag-college-sports","tag-football","tag-inside-sports","tag-latest-headlines","tag-san-jose","tag-san-jose-headlines","tag-san-jose-news","tag-san-jose-state-spartans","tag-san-jose-state-university","tag-santa-clara-county","tag-south-bay","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484095","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=484095"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484095\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/484096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=484095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=484095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=484095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}