The 2025 college football season gets its first breath of life Saturday afternoon when San José State travels to the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum to face USC in a Week 0 opener. Both programs enter the day at 0-0 — every possibility still on the table, every dream still intact.
For the Spartans, this is the kind of opportunity that defines a season before it even begins. Walk into the Coliseum, a cathedral of college football history, and you either shrink or you announce yourself. For the Trojans, it's the first chapter of a new year on their home turf, a chance to set a tone in front of their own crowd and establish exactly who they intend to be.
August 29th. Football is back. That alone is worth the click.
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