{"id":9661,"date":"2025-10-17T13:35:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-17T13:35:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/9661\/"},"modified":"2025-10-17T13:35:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-17T13:35:07","slug":"what-to-know-before-san-jose-state-kicks-off-at-utah-state-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/9661\/","title":{"rendered":"What to know before San Jose State kicks off at Utah State"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

Records: San Jose State (2-4, 1-1 Mountain West); Utah State (3-3, 1-1 MW)<\/p>\n

Kickoff: 6:00 p.m.<\/p>\n

TV: CBS Sports Network<\/p>\n

Radio: 860 AM KTRB<\/p>\n

Series history: SJSU leads Series 21-20-1; SJSU is 1-9 in last ten meetings against USU<\/p>\n

SJSU storylines: Quarterback Walker Eget and wide receiver Danny Scudero are listed as questionable according to the Mountain West\u2019s availability report after both suffering injuries last week in the loss at Wyoming. \u2026 Scudero leads the nation with 845 receiving yards and eight touchdowns. \u2026 Eget leads the Mountain West in passing yards (1,809) and touchdowns (13). \u2026 Defensive lineman Mata Hola is ruled out for the game according to the Mountain West injury report, Hola has been a key rotational piece on the Spartans line \u2026SJSU is still searching for its first road win of the season. \u2026 SJSU has not won a game in Logan, Utah since 2007.<\/p>\n

Utah State storylines: Utah State is coming off a 44-26 loss at Hawaii on the road. \u2026 The Aggies are 3-0 at home. \u2026 Friday\u2019s matchup against San Jose State is Utah State\u2019s homecoming game. \u2026 Two of Utah State\u2019s three losses came against ranked teams (55-35 loss to then No. 18-ranked Vanderbilt and a 44-22 loss to then No. 19 Texas A&M). \u2026 Former BYU head coach Bronco Mendenhall is in his first year as head coach of Utah State and he has led 16 of his 18 teams to bowl eligibility.<\/p>\n

Stats That Matter: Utah State is tied for first in the Mountain West with 16 sacks. \u2026 SJSU is tied for second in the Mountain West for fewest sacks given up with eight. \u2026 Aggies quarterback Bryson Barnes is fourth in the MW with 1,318 passing yards and second in the conference with 12 touchdowns. \u2026 USU running back Miles Davis is fifth in the conference in rushing yards (416). \u2026 Utah State is allowing the second most points per game in the Mountain West (32.67). \u2026 Utah State\u2019s opponents are 24-25 on red zone opportunities in 2025. \u2026 SJSU\u2019s opponents have 45 points off turnovers while SJSU has just 14.<\/p>\n

\u2014 AARON JOHNSON<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SAN JOSE STATE AT UTAH STATE Records: San Jose State (2-4, 1-1 Mountain West); Utah State (3-3, 1-1…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9647,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[7,1327,88,90,89,127],"class_list":{"0":"post-9661","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-jose","8":"tag-california","9":"tag-college-sports","10":"tag-san-jose","11":"tag-san-jose-headlines","12":"tag-san-jose-news","13":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9661","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=9661"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9661\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9647"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}