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By: Ana Kieu

SAN JOSE, Calif. — The San Jose State Spartans hope to turn their luck around when they welcome the Colorado State Rams to CEFCU Stadium on Saturday night. The Spartans will play their second straight home and conference game in the South Bay.

Here are all the details on the Saturday night showdown:

Saturday’s game
San Jose State vs. Colorado State
Saturday, October 6, 2018
CEFCU Stadium, San Jose, Calif., 7:30 pm PT
CBS Sports Network

SJSU’s record
0-4, 0-1 Mountain West. Most recently, the Spartans lost to Hawaii, 44-41 in five overtimes on September 29.

CSU’s record
1-4, 0-1 Mountain West. The Rams lost to Illinois, 34-19, on September 22. CSU had a bye week for the week ending September 29.

Radio
KLIV (1590 AM, San Jose) originates SJSU football broadcasts. Justin Allegri calls the play-by-play. Kevin Richardson provides commentary. The CSU broadcast begins at 3:30 pm PT with a pregame show.

SJSU’s network affiliate is KION (1460 AM/101.1 FM, Salinas).

Television
The CBS Sports Network will provide play-by-play coverage of the SJSU vs. CSU game. Rich Waltz calls the play-by-play. Aaron Murray provides analysis and commentary.  Jordan Daigle is the sideline reporter.

The live telecast is scheduled for 7:32 pm PT.

Tickets:
• sjsuspartans.com/tickets and ticketmaster.com.

Athletics Ticket Office, 1393 S. 7th Street, San José, CA 95112, weekdays, 9:00 am – 5:00 pm.

For home games at CEFCU Stadium:
• New modern family plan
• Spartan alumni season ticket
• Pricing in a distinct seating section

Series history
CSU leads the series, 5-4. The Rams have wins in the last two meetings between these teams including a 42-14 triumph last year in Fort Collins. SJSU’s last win in the series was a 34-27 road victory in 2013.

Five overtimes
SJSU’s recent 44-41 five overtime loss to Hawaii on September 29 is the longest game in Spartan football history and by a MW member since the overtime rule was enacted prior to the 1997 season.

The game was the third time in SJSU’s 10 overtime games that more than one overtime period was necessary. The Spartans lost a double overtime game to Boise State at home, 56-49, on November 13, 2004, and a triple overtime contest to Navy at home, 58-52, on November 22, 2013.

Of SJSU’s 10 overtime games, three are against Hawaii and all of them were played in San Jose. The Rainbow Warriors are 3-0 against the Spartans in overtime games.

SJSU now has played 18 periods of overtime in its 10 games.

Four hours, four minutes
Each of SJSU’s first two home games this season lasted four hours and four minutes. The UC Davis game on August 30 didn’t have a commercial format while the Hawaii encounter on September 29 did through Spectrum Sports/Stadium.

Best of the week
Quarterback Josh Love’s 451 passing yards in the five-overtime loss to Hawaii was the best by a FBS player in games played the week ending September 29, 2018. The 451 yards ranks seventh best through five weeks of regular-season action.

Passing Yardage Totals for Games Played the Week Ending September 29
Quarterback, School                                               Opponent            Yardage
Josh Love, San Jose State                                        Hawaii                      451
Gardner Minshew, II, Washington State                    Utah                            445
Jon Wassink, Western Michigan                                Miami (Ohio)             439
Kyler Murray, Oklahoma                                            Baylor                          432
Riley Neal, Ball State                                                  Kent State                  402
Charlie Brewer, Baylor                                                Oklahoma                  400

Trend broken vs. Hawaii
The Hawaii game marked the first time this season only one quarterback played for SJSU. Josh Love played the entire game against Hawaii and passed for a career-best 451 yards and matched a career-high with three touchdowns.
In each of SJSU’s first three games, the Spartans used at least two quarterbacks. Love, Michael Carrillo and Montel Aaron played in the opener vs. UC Davis. Aaron and Carrillo were the quarterbacks at Washington State. Love and Aaron called the signals for the Spartans at Oregon.

Tops of the week
Josh Oliver led all FBS tight ends in single-game receiving yardage for games played the week ending September 29. Oliver had 158 yards and a touchdown on eight receptions–the second time this season he had eight catches in a game.

Tops at his position
For the fourth consecutive week, Josh Oliver is the leading pass receiver among FBS tight ends. Oliver is averaging 6.75 receptions a game and has 27 catches for the season. He and Missouri’s Albert Okwuegbunam (5.75/game) are the only two tight ends listed among the FBS’ top-50 pass receivers in games played through September 29.

20 of Oliver’s 27 receptions this season resulted in a SJSU first down.

Oliver’s 336 receiving yards are the most of FBS tight ends.

Most in FBS
SJSU, Texas State and Utah State are the three schools this season to attempt six field goals in a game. Texas State and Utah State attempted six field goals in games ending the week of September 8. The Spartans’ six field goal tries occurred in their five-overtime loss to Hawaii, 44-41, on September 29.