After a trio of other teams had a near brush with this dubious achievement, the San Jose State Spartans have done it. They’ve become the first FBS team to lose to an FCS opponent in 2018, falling 44-38 at home to UC Davis on Thursday.

SJSU managed this loss with one of the uglier defensive performances anyone will ever see in college football. The Aggies brought a strong offense into this game — they finished 18th in FCS at 6.2 yards per play last year, even as they went 5-6 — but there’s no good way to explain giving up the numbers the Spartans’ defense did to a lower-division team: 589 total yards, including 446 passing by Jake Meier.

Previously in this still-young season, Rice almost lost to Prairie View A&M, Georgia State almost lost to Kennesaw State, and UL-Monroe almost lost to Southeastern Louisiana. But the FBS teams in all of those games managed late comebacks and won in the last minute — Rice on a field goal that was the subject of some hilariously bad camerawork, GSU on a fade to the corner of the end zone, and ULM with a touchdown and then a blocked field goal.

There’s often no everlasting embarrassment in being the year’s first FBS-to-FCS loser.

A small handful of FBS teams lose FCS games pretty much every year. This one wasn’t much of a surprise. When our staff drafted FCS-on-FBS upset picks before the season, this one was the fifth pick. SJSU was only a 2- to 2.5-point favorite at sportsbooks that took bets on the game.

Last year’s seal-breaker — the first FBS team to lose to an FCS foe — was Georgia State, which went on to a 7-5 year and a win in the Cure Bowl. So not all’s lost for the Spartans, in theory.

They’ve just spared everybody else from being the first to 85-scholarship program to jump into the pool of losing to 63-schollie teams this year. But if their defense is this bad, things aren’t going to get a lot better than they looked Thursday.