The Spartans opened Mountain West play by turning a pair of Micah Alejado interceptions into 10 points and relying on a crucial first-quarter goal-line stand to hold off the Rainbow Warriors.<\/p>\n
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HAWAII<\/a> (AP) Luke Weaver was 19-of-28 passing for 246 yards and two touchdowns with no interceptions and San Jose State<\/a> beat Hawaii 20-16 on Saturday night.<\/p>\n San Jose State (3-2, 1-0 Mountain West Conference) has won six straight against Hawaii and leads the series 25-22-1.<\/p>\n Weaver threw a 10-yard touchdown pass to Kama Kopa-Kaawalauole – his first career TD reception – early in the second quarter and hit Carson Clark with a 12-yard scoring strike that made it 14-0 with 6:08 left in the first half.<\/p>\n Clark finished with five receptions for 74 yards and Jabari Bates added 74 yards rushing.<\/p>\n Trajan Sinatra kicked field goals of 24 and 30 yards in the second half for the Spartans.<\/p>\n Micah Alejado was 22-of-34 passing for 338 yards and a touchdown for Hawaii (1-4, 0-3), but threw two interceptions that San Jose State converted into 10 points. Devin Alves had three receptions for 121 yards, including a 58-yard touchdown.<\/p>\n Sean Olvera-Harle made field goals of 44, 24 and 44 yards for the Rainbow Warriors.<\/p>\n Justin Stearns stopped Hawaii’s Cam Barfield for no gain on fourth-and-1 from the SJSU 4 late in the first quarter.<\/p>\n San Jose State: Hosts Wyoming on Friday.<\/p>\n Hawaii: Visits Arizona State next Saturday.<\/p>\n —<\/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":"The Spartans opened Mountain West play by turning a pair of Micah Alejado interceptions into 10 points and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":484665,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[1321,13623,88,90,89,997],"class_list":["post-484664","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-jose","tag-college-football","tag-hawaii-rainbow-warriors","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\/484664","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=484664"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484664\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/484665"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=484664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=484664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=484664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}