San José State University Schedule & Results FOOTBALL NEWS 10/24 *Air Force (FS1) 7:30 p.m. 10/31 *@New Mexico CONTACT: Lawrence Fan, Associate Athletics Director for Football Communications (FS1 or FS2) (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 18, 2020 11/14 *UNLV (FS1 or FS2) SAN José STATE UNIVERSITY FOOTBALL FACT SHEET (Game #1) 11/21 *@Fresno State 4:00 p.m. San José State vs. Air Force (CBS Sports Network) CEFCU Stadium, San Jose, Calif. 11/28 *@Boise State Saturday, October 24, 2020, 7:30 p.m. (PT) (FS1 or FS2) FS1 12/5 *Hawai’i 1:00 p.m. (Spectrum Sports) San José State record: 0-0, 0-0 Mountain West. In 2019, the Spartans finished with a 5-7 12/11 *Nevada 7:00 p.m. overall record and 2-6 in conference action. (CBS Sports Network) Air Force record: 1-0, 0-0 Mountain West. The Falcons opened the season with a 40-7 Air Force Schedule & Results (1-0) win over Navy in a non-conference contest on October 3. 10/3 Navy 40-7 (W) 10/24 *@San José State San José State head coach Brent Brennan: Beginning his fourth season as the Spartans’ 10/31 *Boise State head coach. Has a major college coaching record of 8-29, all at San José State. Received 11/7 @Army West Point a three-year contract extension through the 2024 season in December 2019. Brennan 11/14 *@Wyoming returned to San José State for 2017 after six seasons as a receivers coach at Oregon State. 11/20 *New Mexico He was a Spartan assistant coach during the 2005 through 2010 seasons. Brennan is 0-1 11/26 *Colorado State as a head coach against Air Force. 12/3 *Utah State Air Force head coach Troy Calhoun: In his 14th season as a major college head coach. * - Mountain West contest Has a record of 99-69, all with the Falcons. He is 3-0 as a head coach against San Jose State. Play-by-Play Radio Coverage: KDOW (1220 AM, 96.3 FM, Palo Alto), Series history: Air Force leads the series, 4-1. The Falcons have wins in the last three is the 2020 flagship radio station for games including a 41-24 decision in Colorado Springs in 2019. San Jose State’s first win San Jose State University football. in the series was a 25-22 triumph in CEFCU Stadium on October 25, 1997. That night, Justin Allegri calls the play-by-play. Air Force committed five turnovers fumbling three times and quarterback Beau Morgan Kevin Richardson provides commen- was intercepted twice. San Jose State University press box statistician David Silberstein tary. The Air Force broadcast begins converted field goals of 23 and 37 yards in the victory. at 7:00 p.m. (PT) with a pregame The 2020 San Jose State-Air Force game marks the second time the Spartans open a show. season against the Falcons. In San José State’s 1996 Western Athletic Conference (WAC) debut, Air Force hosted San Jose State and won, 45-0. KSJS (90.5FM, San Jose) also will carry a play-by-play broadcast of Season openers: The 2019 season marked the first time since 2015 San Jose State won the San Jose State-Air Force football its season-opening game. The Spartans defeated Northern Colorado, 35-18. game. Air time is 7:15 p.m. (PT) with The last time San Jose State opened a season at home against a Football Bowl Subdi- a pregame show. vision (FBS) opponent was in 1995 with Stanford emerging with a 47-33 victory. The last time San Jose State won a home season opener against a FBS team was a Television: FS1 will provide broad- 14-0 victory over New Mexico State in 1984. cast coverage beginning at 7:30 Since 1965, the Spartans opened a season at home eight times against a current FBS p.m. (PT). From the FOX studios in team and have a record of 3-3-2. Los Angeles, Alex Faust will call the play-by-play and Petro Papadakis Latest start to a season: The October 24 starting date for the 2020 San Jose State foot- will provide commentary. The FS1 ball team is the latest on the calendar in school history. The last time the Spartans began telecast begins at 7:30 p.m. (PT). a season in October was in 1936 when the University of San Francisco posted a 13-0 victory in Spartan Stadium. The 1936 Spartans would go on to finish with a 5-4 win-loss Weekly Press Conference: record. The weekly San José State foot- Previously, the latest starting date to a San Jose State football season was on Octo- ball Zoom press conference is on ber 21, 1921 when the opening game was against San Jose High School. That game was Mondays at 1:00 p.m. (PT). Contact San Jose State’s first contest after going 17 years without sponsoring a college football Lawrence Fan at lawrence.fan@sjsu. program. edu to participate. In a select group: With its 34-29 win over Army in 2019, San Jose State became the The Zoom press conference will be 20th school to record a victory over each of the three Football Bowl Subdivision United archived at sjsuspartans.com. States service academies - Air Force, Army West Point, and Navy. The Spartans have one win over each service academy winning on the road at Navy (2012) and Army West Point Brent Brennan Show (2019) and at home versus Air Force (1997). Facebook Live: The Brent Brennan Show will be Schools with football wins over Air Force, Army West Point & Navy shared weekly on Twitter and Face- Boston College Michigan Notre Dame The Citadel book. All shows will be available on California Minnesota Penn State TCU SoundCloud, iTunes, and Google Georgia Tech Missouri Rutgers Tulane podcast. Houston North Carolina San Diego State Tulsa Miami, Fla. Northwestern San José State Yale San José State-Air Force games (Air Force leads, 4-1) 12 days at Humboldt State: In preparation for the 2020 season, the San Jose State Uni- 9/27/19 @AFA 41, SJSU 24 versity football program practiced at Humboldt State University from Saturday, October 11/19/16 AFA 41, @SJSU 38 3 through Wednesday, October 14. The six-bus caravan traveled roughly 650 miles round 9/12/15 @AFA 37, SJSU 16 trip to Arcata, Calif., and back. The state of California’s classification of COVID-19 proto- 10/25/97 @SJSU 25, AFA 22 cols and guidelines in Humboldt County were less restrictive than in Santa Clara County 8/31/96 @AFA 45, SJSU 0 where San Jose State is located. 2020 Mountain West Standings Spare The Air impact: During San Jose State’s workouts prior to contact practices, the Overall Conference Spartans restarted their schedule twice in August and September due to the unprec- Air Force 1-0 0-0 edented number of Spare the Air days in Santa Clara County. The campus was closed Boise State 0-0 0-0 August 19 through August 25, September 11 through September 15, and October 2 Colorado State 0-0 0-0 through October 4. During the third campus closure, the Spartans had relocated to Hum- Fresno State 0-0 0-0 boldt County and the Humboldt State University campus. Hawai’i 0-0 0-0 Nevada 0-0 0-0 Aiming for two in a row at home: San José State closed out the 2019 season with a 17- New Mexico 0-0 0-0 16 victory over Mountain West rival Fresno State. The Spartans have their next oppor- San Diego State 0-0 0-0 tunity to win back-to-back games for the first time since defeating UNLV at home and San José State 0-0 0-0 winning at Wyoming in the 2014 season. The last time San José State won consecutive UNLV 0-0 0-0 home games was in 2016 with victories over Nevada and UNLV. Utah State 0-0 0-0 Wyoming 0-0 0-0 Coordinator continuity: For the first time since the 1987 through 1989 seasons, San Jose State has the same head coach, offensive coordinator, defensive coordinator in October 24 games three consecutive seasons. Brent Brennan and Derrick Odum enter their fourth season *Hawai’i at Fresno State as head coach and defensive coordinator, respectively. Kevin McGiven joined the staff in *Wyoming at Nevada 2018 as the offensive coordinator. *Utah State at Boise State *New Mexico at Colorado State Potential first-time starters: Based on the October 17 depth chart, four Spartans have a *Air Force at San José State chance to make their first San José State in the Air Force game. *UNLV at San Diego State Though quarterback Nick Starkel made 10 starts combined at his previous schools, Texas A&M and Arkansas, the October 24 opener vs. Air Force could be his first in a Spar- * - Mountain West game tan uniform. The same would be true if Nick Nash started the game at quarterback for the Spartans. Overtime history (3-7) Defensively, community college transfer Jay Kakiva is listed as the #1 nose tackle. 9/29/18 Hawai’i 44, SJSU 41 (5OT) Freshmen Charlie Bostic tops one cornerback position and Elijah Fischer is listed as the 11/14/15 Nevada 37, SJSU 34 (OT) punter. 10/10/15 SJSU 33, UNLV 27 (OT) 10/18/14 SJSU 27, Trending properly in turnover margin: After finishing last in the Football Bowl Subdi- Wyoming 20 (OT) vision (FBS) in 2017, the Spartans made marked improvement in each of the next two 11/22/13 Navy 58, SJSU 52 (3OT) seasons and finished tied for 10th nationally at +10.