{"id":55979,"date":"2019-08-05T13:00:03","date_gmt":"2019-08-05T17:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/utnews.utoledo.edu\/?p=55979"},"modified":"2019-08-05T12:23:34","modified_gmt":"2019-08-05T16:23:34","slug":"rockets-schedule-two-game-series-with-san-jose-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/08_05_2019\/rockets-schedule-two-game-series-with-san-jose-state","title":{"rendered":"Rockets Schedule Two-Game Series With San Jose State"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The University of Toledo football team will play a home-and-home series with San Jose State, UToledo Vice President and Athletic Director Mike O&#8217;Brien announced today. <\/p>\n<p>Toledo will host San Jose State in 2023 and will make the return trip to San Jose in 2028.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/?attachment_id=55980\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-55980\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Rockets-and-Falcons.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"748\" height=\"421\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-55980\" srcset=\"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Rockets-and-Falcons.jpeg 748w, https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Rockets-and-Falcons-300x169.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 748px) 100vw, 748px\" \/><\/a>The contest will mark the first regular-season game between the two schools. The only other meeting was a 27-25 Rocket victory in 1981 at the inaugural California Bowl in Fresno. Toledo triumphed on a 41-yard field goal by Tony Lee with just 15 seconds left on the clock.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are very pleased to add San Jose State to our non-conference football schedule,&#8221; O&#8217;Brien said. &#8220;They have a proud football tradition and play in a very competitive conference [Mountain West]. Many of our fans will remember the thrilling bowl game played between our two schools back in 1981. We look forward to an exciting series.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Toledo will open up its 2019 season at Kentucky Saturday, Aug. 31, before hosting Murray State in the home opener Saturday, Sept. 14. <\/p>\n<p>Full-time UToledo employees and retirees may purchase tickets at half-price. UToledo students are admitted to home games free with ID.<\/p>\n<p>To purchase season tickets, single-game tickets or away-game tickets, stop by the UToledo Athletic Ticket Office, located in the Sullivan Athletic Complex at Savage Arena, go to the <a href=\"https:\/\/utrockets.com\/sports\/2019\/2\/28\/GEN_2014010139.aspx\">Toledo Football Ticket Central website<\/a>, or call 419.530.GOLD (4653).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Toledo Rockets and San Jose State will face each other on the football in in 2023 and 2028.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[50,56,5,1],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55979"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55979"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55979\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55984,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55979\/revisions\/55984"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}