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San José State University Schedule & Results FOOTBALL NEWS 10/24 *Air Force (FS1) 17-6 (W) 10/31 *New Mexico CONTACT: Lawrence Fan, Associate Athletics Director for Football Communications (FS1) (408) 924-1217 (office), (408) 768-3424 (cell), [email protected] 11/6 *@San Diego State 6:00 p.m. FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE (CBS Sports Network) October 25, 2020 11/14 *UNLV (FS1 or FS2) SAN José STATE UNIVERSITY FOOTBALL FACT SHEET (Game #2) 11/21 *@Fresno State 4:00 p.m. San José State vs. New Mexico (CBS Sports Network) CEFCU Stadium, San Jose, Calif. 11/28 *@Boise State Saturday, October 31, 2020, 4:00 p.m. (PT) (FS1 or FS2) FS1 12/5 *Hawai’i 1:00 p.m. (Spectrum Sports) San José State record: 1-0, 1-0 Mountain West. The Spartans opened the 2020 season 12/11 *Nevada 7:00 p.m. defeating Air Force, 17-6. San José State has wins in its last two games dating back to the (CBS Sports Network) 17-16 victory over Fresno State to conclude the 2019 season. New Mexico New Mexico record: 0-0, 0-0 Mountain West. The Lobos’ season-opening game at Colo- Schedule & Results (0-0) rado State on October 24 was canceled. 10/24 *@Colorado State cancelled 10/31 *@San José State San José State head coach Brent Brennan: In his fourth season as the Spartans’ head (game moved to SJSU) coach. Has a major college coaching record of 9-29, all at San José State. Received a 11/7 *@Hawai’i three-year contract extension through the 2024 season in December 2019. Brennan 11/14 *Nevada returned to San José State for 2017 after six seasons as a receivers coach at Oregon State. 11/20 *@Air Force He was a Spartan assistant coach during the 2005 through 2010 seasons. Brennan is 1-0 11/26 *@Utah State as a head coach against New Mexico. 12/5 *Wyoming 12/12 *Fresno State New Mexico head coach Danny Gonzales: In his first season as a major college head coach. As an assistant coach at New Mexico (2006) and at San Diego State (2015 and * - Mountain West contest 2016), he is 1-2 in games against San José State. Play-by-Play Radio Coverage: Series history: San José State leads the series, 13-5-1. The Spartans have wins in four of KDOW (1220 AM, Palo Alto, 95.3 FM, the last five contests. San Francisco), is the 2020 flagship The home team won the last three meetings between these squads. The Spartans radio station for San Jose State Uni- came away with a 32-21 victory in CEFCU Stadium on October 4, 2019. versity football. Justin Allegri calls New Mexico’’s most recent win in the series was a 48-41 win on October 11, 2016. the play-by-play. Kevin Richardson The last time the visiting team won in this series was when San José State posted a provides commentary. The New 20-12 triumph in the inaugural New Mexico Bowl. Mexico broadcast begins at 3:30 p.m. (PT) with a pregame show. Aiming for a 2-0 start to the season: The last time a San José State team began a sea- son with a 2-0 record was in 1987 when the Spartans defeated Eastern Illinois, 24-3, and Television: FS1 will provide broad- topped California, 27-25. cast coverage beginning at 4:00 p.m. (PT)/5:00 p.m. (MT). Guy Haberman A 2-0 conference start is possible: The 2020 San Jose State football team can become calls the play-by-play. Charles Ar- the university’s first to post a 2-0 record in conference play since joining the Mountain buckle serves as the analyst. The FS1 West. The last time the Spartans had a 2-0 conference record was in 2008 as a Western telecast begins at 4:00 p.m. (PT). Athletic Conference member after wins over Hawai’i and Utah State. Weekly Press Conference: The last three-game winning streak: With wins over Fresno State to end the 2019 The weekly San José State foot- season and Air Force to open 2020, San José State has an opportunity to win three ball Zoom press conference is on consecutive games for the first time since 2013. That year, the Spartans won at Hawai’i, at Mondays at 1:00 p.m. (PT). Contact Colorado State, and at home against Wyoming. Lawrence Fan at lawrence.fan@sjsu. edu to participate. The last road win: San José State’s last road win was a 34-29 win at Army West Point on October 26, 2019. Since then the Spartans lost their last two road games in 2019 at The Zoom press conference will be Hawai’i and at UNLV. archived at sjsuspartans.com. Brent Brennan Show Limiting the opponent: The 17-6 win over Air Force marked the first time since a 24-0 Facebook Live: season-opening win over Sacramento State in 2013 that San Jose State limited an oppo- The Brent Brennan Show will be nent to fewer than 10 points. Eighty-five (85) consecutive opponents scored 10 or more shared weekly on Twitter and Face- points against the Spartans between the Sacramento State and Air Force wins. book. All shows will be available on San José State heads into the New Mexico game ranked tied for second nationally in SoundCloud, iTunes, and Google scoring defense at 6.0 per game. podcast. Goal line stands in consecutive games: In each of San Jose State’s last two games, the Recent 2019 finale hosting Fresno State and the 2020 opener against Air Force, the San José San José State-New Mexico games State defense stopped its opponent at the end of the second quarter inside the Spartans’ (San Jose State leads, 13-5-1) 5-yard line and returned the ball to the offense on downs. 10/4/19 @SJSU 32, UNM 21 In the 2019 Fresno State win, the defense made stops on the 6, 8 and 1-yard lines on 10/11/16 @UNM 48, SJSU 41 the final three downs of the half. 10/24/15 @SJSU 31, UNM 21 In the 2020 victory over Air Force, the Falcons’ possession ended with stops at the 12/23/06 SJSU 25, @UNM 12 1-yard line on second, third and fourth down. Safety Tre Webb, who finished the game with 11 tackles, was credited with an assisted tackle on third down and a 1-yard tackle 2020 Mountain West Standings for loss on fourth down from 1-yard line. Overall Conference Air Force 1-1 0-1 Starting the season with a positive turnover margin: Tied for tenth in the country Boise State 1-0 1-0 last year in turnover margin with a +10, San Jose State began 2020 by recovering two Colorado State 0-0 0-0 fumbles, but had one pass intercepted against Air Force for a plus-1 in turnover margin. Fresno State 0-1 0-1 San Jose State scored a touchdown on its possession after the second fumble recovery Hawai’i 1-0 1-0 and was not scored on after the interception. Nevada 1-0 1-0 In the Spartans’ last 13 games, San Jose State has scored 82 points off of turnovers New Mexico 0-0 0-0 and yielded 28. San Diego State 1-0 1-0 San José State 1-0 1-0 Season 2020 (# & FBS rank) 2019 (# & FBS rank) UNLV 0-1 0-1 Turnover margin +1 - 12th tied of 130 +10 - 10th tied of 130 Utah State 0-1 0-1 Season 2018 (# & FBS rank) 2017 (# & FBS rank) Wyoming 0-1 0-1 +1 - 57th of 129 -26 - 129th of 129 October 29 game First-time starters: Four players made their first major college start in the Air Force win. *Colorado State at Fresno State The four first-time starters is a smaller number of players to make their debut in a start- ing lineup in an opening game compared to seven in 2019 and five in 2018. October 30 game *Hawai’i at Wyoming Air Force - Jay Kakiva, DL; Lando Grey, DL; Tre Jenkins, S; Shamar Garrett, RB October 31 games Gaither makes it 30: Graduate student Bailey Gaither became the 30th San Jose State *Boise State at Air Force University football player to catch at least 100 passes in a career with his eight-catch, *New Mexico at San Jose State 110-yard contribution in the win over Air Force. Gaither enters the New Mexico game *San Diego State at Utah State with 102 career receptions and is in 27th place on the San Jose State career list. Team- *Nevada at UNLV mate Tre Walker is in eighth with 148 career receptions. * - Mountain West game Walker/Gaither duo in NCAA’s top-20: San Jose State University wide receivers Bailey Gaither and Tre Walker are one of three pairs of players each ranked in the top-20 in Overtime history (3-7) average yards per catch among Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS) players. 9/29/18 Hawai’i 44, SJSU 41 (5OT) 11/14/15 Nevada 37, SJSU 34 (OT) Average yards per catch by active Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS) players 10/10/15 SJSU 33, UNLV 27 (OT) School Rank, Player Avg. Per Reception 10/18/14 SJSU 27, Alabama 1. Jaylen Waddle 19.1 yards Wyoming 20 (OT) 9. DeVonta Smith 16.3 yards 11/22/13 Navy 58, SJSU 52 (3OT) Louisville 6. Tutu Atwell 16.9 yards 12/4/10 Idaho 26, SJSU 23 (OT) 11.