Ken Niumatalolo and the Spartans have a new beginning in 2026, can they return to their winning ways?

📌 Hawaii Bowl hero Luke Weaver comes over to take the reigns of the offense

📌 History tells us someone is going to emerge to have a massive year at receiver. There are a lot of candidates 👀

📌 The Spartans defense will be retooled but there are promising pieces, especially in the secondary

Can the Spartans rebound? How many wins do they finish with in 2026?

Was a beast for SJSU, what an awesome moment.

Seems like the 24 team playoff is a matter of “when” and not “if”.

It won’t be a copy of the FCS system, unfortunately. Just the top 24 teams selected by the committee.

If the 24 team playoff had been around since, let’s say 2000, SJSU would’ve made it twice. Once in 2012 and again 2020. So hypothetically, the 24 team playoff gives us a realistic shot at making the playoffs.

However, I’m skeptical about the playoff committee itself. I’m sure under the current and old system, they wouldn’t mind ranking SJSU in the top 24. But with a playoff spot on the line, I could totally see them snubbing, let’s say, a 10 win SJSU team for an 8-4 SEC team “with no bad losses”. Especially if they follow through with removing conference championship games.

So, I have mixed feelings about it all. Again, it does give SJSU the best chance at making the playoffs, but its clear that the powers that be want a 24 team team playoff to benefit middle of the pack SEC and B1G schools, as opposed to top mid-major schools.

If only they pushed for an FCS style playoff. Would be perfect, in my opinion. You guys have any thoughts on it?

Unfortunately, didn’t get the help we needed from SDSU to make the MW Tournament, but sweeping the Bulldogs feels like a pretty damn good way to end the year.

Spartans keep their hopes alive for a shot in the MW Baseball tournament. If SDSU beats UNLV tonight, tomorrow becomes a win and in for SJSU.