Boise State made the plays the University of Hawaii couldn’t en route to a 31-10 victory to clinch the Mountain West Conference Championship football game before a boisterous Broncos crowd that has come to expect nothing less. The Rainbow Warriors had their chances, but failed to convert two big fourth-down plays inside the Broncos 5 to fall to 9-5 for the season. They will likely play host to Brigham Young on Christmas Eve in the Hawaii Bowl. Boise State will […]

A streaky Hawaii offense got help from its defense at just the right times as the Rainbow Warriors held on for a 52-31 victory over Army at Aloha Stadium on Saturday night. Hawaii (9-4) started Chevan Cordeiro, but it was Cole McDonald who took the Warriors home, entering when Cordeiro injured his leg 3 minutes and 36 seconds before halftime and completing 19 of 29 passes for 250 yards and three touchdown passes. McDonald entered with the game tied at […]

The Honolulu Star-Advertiser reported today on an incident that occurred toward the end of Hawaii’s Mountain West Conference West Division-title clinching victory over San Diego State. A veteran Honolulu Star-Advertiser photographer, Jamm Aquino, alleges that he was assaulted by head coach Nick Rolovich and another UH athletics employee on the field in the final seconds of the game. After a missed field goal by the Aztecs, Aquino and other photographers ran onto the field along with the UH coaching staff […]

Hawaii beats San Diego State about as often as a solar eclipse passes through the island chain. So, even though the Rainbow Warriors were favored to knock off the Aztecs tonight, you can understand why many in the Aloha Stadium crowd of 21,592 were dubious. But thanks to a resurgent defense and quarterbacks Cole McDonald and Chevan Cordeiro, the Warriors did exactly that, 14-11, to win the West Division and advance to the Mountain West Conference championship game at Boise […]

In the press conference following Hawaii’s win over San Jose State last weekend, Nick Rolovich didn’t want any part of a question about his team’s chances of winning the West Division of the Mountain West Conference. At that point, too many variables. Well, those variables were greatly reduced with San Diego State’s win over Fresno State on Friday and Hawaii’s dramatic victory over Nevada-Las Vegas today at Sam Boyd Stadium in Henderson, Nev. The 21-7 final score sets up a […]

If the University of Hawaii football team entertained any real shot at postseason play, the Rainbow Warriors needed a win over visiting San Jose State — preferably with little fanfare. Check on that first goal. Not so much on the second. >> PHOTO GALLERY: HAWAII VS. SAN JOSE STATE Before a small but boisterous Aloha Stadium crowd of 16,367 Hawaii held off the spunky Spartans 42-40 to get within one win of being bowl eligible with three to play. Hawaii […]