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The USC Trojans are kicking off the 2023 college football season with a week zero matchup with the San Jose State Spartans. The entire USCFootball.com staff will be covering the game live from the press box and the field, bringing you photos, videos, analysis and interviews including this LIVE pregame video.

At approximately 45 minutes prior to the 5:00 p.m. kickoff on Pac-12 Network we will be broadcasting live from the press box, showing the Trojans warming up on the field followed by the pregame performance of the Trojan Marching Band.

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For our full and extensive preview of the Trojans and the Spartans check out this piece from Tom Haire. An excerpt of the article is below:

The Trojan defense has one last chance to prepare for USC’s rivalry games. Can it get right against Colorado?

The consensus No. 6 USC Trojans open their 2023 season Saturday, Aug. 26, against the San Jose State Spartans at 5 p.m. PDT in the 100-year-old Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum and in front of a national Pac-12 Network television audience. The Trojans are a 30.5-point favorite over their Mountain West Conference foe as of Thursday evening. USC has won the previous five meetings, all since 1995 and all in the Coliseum, including a 30-7 victory in 2021. USC is 98-24-8 in season openers (winning 24 of the past 25) and 102-19-7 in home openers.

Lincoln Riley (11-3 at USC; 66-13 overall including five years as the head coach at Oklahoma) launches his second season as the Trojans’ leader. While he orchestrated an incredible turnaround from 2021’s four-win campaign, Riley and the Trojans look hungry to atone for a disappointing final two games of the 2022 season (losses to Utah in the Pac-12 title game and Tulane in the Cotton Bowl). Meanwhile, Brent Brennan (27-42) begins his seventh season at the helm of the Spartans. Since losing 22 of his first 25 games in San Jose, Brennan became the first coach to lead SJSU to two bowl games (2020 Arizona Bowl and 2022 Famous Idaho Potato Bowl) since Claude Gilbert in 1986 and 1987.

The Trojans return 16 starters (six offense, eight defense, placekicker and punter) but have supplemented their talent level – particularly on the offensive and defensive lines – via the transfer portal. The most important returnee, of course, is junior quarterback Caleb Williams, the 2022 Heisman Trophy winner.

San Jose State returns 14 starters including quarterback Chevan Cordeiro, who led the MWC in passing yards in 2022, and four offensive linemen. The Spartans turned the ball over just nine times last season and finished second in the conference by forcing 20 turnovers. SJSU also topped the MWC with 39 sacks, but the players responsible for two-thirds of those are no longer with the program.

Stay tuned to USCFootball.com for wall to wall coverage of the USC Trojans and the San Jose State Spartans Saturday night showdown in the Coliseum.

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