{"id":506569,"date":"2026-10-24T13:14:10","date_gmt":"2026-10-24T13:14:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/506569\/"},"modified":"2026-10-24T13:14:10","modified_gmt":"2026-10-24T13:14:10","slug":"what-to-know-before-san-jose-state-kicks-off-at-nevada-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/506569\/","title":{"rendered":"What to know before San Jose State kicks off at Nevada"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Records: San Jose State (4-3, 2-1 Mountain West), Nevada (2-4, 1-2 MW)<\/p>\n<p>Kickoff: 2 p.m. Saturday at Mackay Stadium, Reno, Nevada<\/p>\n<p>TV: MW+<\/p>\n<p>Series history: Reno leads the all-time series 23-12-1<\/p>\n<p>San Jose State storylines: SJSU has just 7 wins in 24 games against the Wolf Pack this century. The Spartans aim to get their first win at Mackay Stadium since 2000 \u2026 SJSU has 11 straight losses in Reno. SJSU\u2019s worst loss in the series came last season, when it lost 55-10, resulting in the firing of former SJSU defensive coordinator Derrick Odum \u2026 Freshman Daniel Rolovich, who mad his collegiate debut last weekend at UTEP, is the fifth different starting quarterback for the Spartans since the beginning of the 2024 season and the seventh different quarterback overall. Rolovich replaced Luke Weaver, whose 11 touchdown passes lead the Mountain West \u2026 The Spartans have more wins than they had last season and still have six regular-season games remaining.<\/p>\n<p>Nevada storylines: This is homecoming at Nevada \u2026 The Wolf Pack passing defense is ranked seventh in the country, allowing just 156.3 yards through the air per game \u2026 linebacker EJ Smith is first in the country with 11.8 tackles per game and ranks second with 71 total tackles and 6.50 solo tackles per game \u2026 Running backs Herschel Turner Jr. and Dominic Kelley lead the team, averaging 192.8 rushing yards per game, ranking third in the Mountain West and 36th in the country.<\/p>\n<p>Stats that matter: Since the season-opening 42-26 loss at USC the San Jose State defense has allowed 18.3 points per game \u2026 SJSU had 11 sacks against UTEP last week and is second in the country with 27 overall \u2026 Carson Clark has the second-most freshman receptions in the country with 42 \u2026 Through seven games, the Spartans have 233 rushing attempts. Last season, the Spartans ran the ball a total of 317 times, which was the third fewest in the country.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 NILES HALL<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Records: San Jose State (4-3, 2-1 Mountain West), Nevada (2-4, 1-2 MW) Kickoff: 2 p.m. Saturday at Mackay&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":506570,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[7,1471,1327,266,88,90,89,198,127],"class_list":["post-506569","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-jose","tag-california","tag-central-coast","tag-college-sports","tag-northern-california","tag-san-jose","tag-san-jose-headlines","tag-san-jose-news","tag-santa-clara-county","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506569","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=506569"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506569\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/506570"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=506569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=506569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=506569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}