{"id":241346,"date":"2025-09-20T11:42:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-20T11:42:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/241346\/"},"modified":"2025-09-20T11:42:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-20T11:42:09","slug":"what-to-know-before-san-jose-state-kicks-off-vs-idaho","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/241346\/","title":{"rendered":"What to know before San Jose State kicks off vs. Idaho"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mercurynews.com\/?p=12209828\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>IDAHO AT SAN JOSE STATE<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Records:<\/strong> San Jose State 0-2, 0-0 MW; Idaho 2-1, 0-0 Big Sky<\/p>\n<p><strong>Kickoff:<\/strong> 2 p.m.<\/p>\n<p><strong>TV:<\/strong> NBC Sports Bay Area &amp; Mountain West Network<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>Radio:<\/strong> 860 AM KTRB<\/p>\n<p><strong>Series History:<\/strong> SJSU leads series 12-10-1 and is 4-1 in the last five meetings<\/p>\n<p><strong>SJSU Storylines:<\/strong> \u00a0The last time SJSU faced an FCS school was a 42-24 win over Sacramento State on Aug. 29, 2024. \u2026 Under second-year head coach Ken Niumatalolo, the Spartans are 5-3 at home. \u2026 Matthew Coleman is questionable because he is recovering from an injury suffered in week one, according to Niumatalolo. Coleman, SJSU\u2019s leading receiver in the 2024 Hawaii Bowl, did not play against Texas. Another receiver, Malachi Riley is not expected to play as he also recovers from a week one injury.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Idaho Storylines:<\/strong> Thomas Ford Jr. is in his first season as head coach of the Vandals. Ford previously was the running backs coach for the team in 2022-23 before holding that position for a season at Oregon State. \u2026 Quarterback Joshua Wood, who spent the last two seasons at Fresno State, became the first Idaho quarterback to rush for over 100 yards in a game since 2021 during the 13-10 loss against Washington State. \u2026 Idaho has defeated two FBS opponents the past two seasons, both of them being Mountain West schools (a 17-13 win over Wyoming in 2023 and a 33-6 win over Nevada in 2024).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Stats That Matter:<\/strong> SJSU\u2019s defense is allowing a third down conversion rate of 16% (4-25) which ranks first in the Mountain West and third in the country. \u2026 The Spartans have a five-game win streak over FCS schools. \u2026 Wide receiver Danny Scudero leads the Mountain West in receiving yards per game (124.5).\u00a0 \u2026 Linebacker Jordan Pollard is fifteenth in the nation with 20 tackles.\u00a0 \u2026 Idaho leads the Big Sky with 220 rushing yards per game. \u2026 Wood is the team\u2019s leading rusher with 298 rushing yards, averaging 9.8 yards per carry. \u2026 In week one, Idaho\u2019s defense held Washington State to just three yards rushing. \u2026The last time the Spartans started 0-2 was in 2023, but they finished 7-6 (6-2 in conference play) and played in the Hawaii Bowl.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Aaron Johnson<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"IDAHO AT SAN JOSE STATE Records: San Jose State 0-2, 0-0 MW; Idaho 2-1, 0-0 Big Sky Kickoff:&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":241347,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[276,87414,1369,1318,728,1317,1315,1316,27951,15182,62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-241346","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ncaa-football","8":"tag-california","9":"tag-central-coast","10":"tag-college-sports","11":"tag-football","12":"tag-local-news","13":"tag-ncaa","14":"tag-ncaa-football","15":"tag-ncaafootball","16":"tag-northern-california","17":"tag-santa-clara-county","18":"tag-sports","19":"tag-united-states","20":"tag-unitedstates","21":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115236447387616976","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241346","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=241346"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241346\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/241347"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=241346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=241346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=241346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}