(Game #8)
Upcoming game: San José State vs. UNLV
Saturday, October 27, 2018, CEFCU Stadium,
San José, Calif., 3:30 p.m. (PT)
AT&T SportsNet
San José State record: 0-7, 0-3 Mountain West. Most recently, the Spartans lost at San Diego State, 16-13, on October 20. The Spartans' last win was a 20-17 victory over Mountain West member Wyoming on November 25, 2017.
UNLV record: 2-5, 0-3 Mountain West. The Rebels lost their fourth in a row, 41-35, to Air Force on October 19.
Series history: San José State leads the series, 15-6-1. The Rebels won for the first time in eight meetings last year in a 41-13 triumph in Las Vegas. The Spartans posted a 30-24 Mountain West victory in 2016 when the teams last met in CEFCU Stadium.
Television: AT&T SportsNet will provide play-by-play coverage of the San José State-UNLV game. The live telecast is scheduled for 3:30 p.m. (PT).
AT&T SportsNet is available on:
DirecTV Channel 684
DISH Network Channel 414
UVerse Channel 757
Play-by-Play Radio Coverage: KLIV (1590 AM, San José) originates San José State football broadcasts. Justin Allegri calls the play-by-play. Kevin Richardson provides commentary. The UNLV broadcast begins at 3:00
p.m. (PT) with a pregame show.
San José State's network affiliate is KION (1460 AM/101.1 FM, Salinas).
KSJS (90.5 FM, San José) also will broadcast the UNLV game. The pre- game show begins at 3:15 p.m.
San Jose State-UNLV ties: UNLV fullback Daniel Godfrey is the son of former San Jose State linebacker Dan Godfrey, a two-time All-Big West Conference linebacker during the 1993 and 1994 seasons.
UNLV defensive backs coach Al Simmons was a graduate assistant on the 2005 San Jose State staff led by Dick Tomey.
UNLV director of athletics Desiree Reed-Francois was San José State University's director of compliance from 1999 through 2002.
Defense turns in strong performance at San Diego State: San Diego State scored only one touchdown in its 16-13 victory over San Jose State. The previous time the Spartans limited an opponent to a single six-pointer in a game was a 13-0 loss to Hawai'i on November 15, 2014 at CEFCU Stadium.
San Jose State kept the San Diego State offense in check yielding a season-low 293 yards - the first time since the November 26, 2016 win at Fresno State that the defense kept an opponent under 300 yards of total offense.
Pass defense improving: In San Jose State's last three games, opponents are completing just over 50 percent of their passing attempts (23-of-45) for five touchdowns. In the team's first four games of the season, the Spartans gave up 13 passing touchdowns and no less than 309 passing yards per game.
Spartans end TD drought: San José State's third-quarter touchdown with 0:50 remaining on a Malike Roberson 1-yard run was the Spartans' first TD since Thai Cottrell caught a 1-yard pass from quarterback Josh Love in the Colorado State game. San Jose State was 13 seconds short of two complete games (1:59:47) of not scoring a touchdown
Crawford back on track: Placekicker Bryce Crawford has made his last three field goal tries in the Army West Point and San Diego State contests. He is 9-of-14 for the season with a season-long 49-yarder against Army West Point.
Papazian becomes a specialist: Punter Brian Papazian specializes in short punts. Of his seven punts in the three games he played, six landed inside the opponent's 20-yard line. Fresno State punter Blake Cusick is the only Mountain West punter in games played through October 20 to have at least 50 percent of his punts land inside the 20-yard line (18-of-30).
Click on the link San Jose State football weekly release for the complete release containing game notes, depth charts, team rosters and individual and team statistics.
