At the beginning of the year the Las Vegas oddsmakers set the win total for the University of Hawaii football team at a meager 5 1/2. Given the degree of difficulty of this year’s schedule it might have been a wise bet to take the under and live to see another day. But Rainbow Warriors quarterbacks Cole McDonald and Chevan Cordeiro have spent most of this season defying the odds trying to overcome a porous defense that is among the […]

With the possibility of postseason play exiting the stage with a loss, Hawaii knew today’s football game at New Mexico was a must win. And that’s exactly what the Rainbow Warriors did, 45-31 over the Lobos in the hosts’ 95th homecoming game in Albuquerque, N.M. The victory leveled Hawaii’s Mountain West Conference record at 2-2 and raised its overall mark to 5-3, still two wins shy of playing during the holidays. The Lobos dropped to 2-6 for the season and […]

For the second consecutive week the University of Hawaii knocked the opponent’s starting quarterback out of the game only to have the backup deliver the knockout blow. Second-string signal-caller Michael Schmidt didn’t miss a beat when he came in for fallen teammate Donald Hammond III to lead the Air Force Academy to an easy 56-26 win that was punctuated by a 92-yard interception return for a touchdown on a low Cole McDonald pass that was kicked up in the air […]

In the Nick Rolovich era, every time the University of Hawaii football team appears ready to take a big step forward, it flies into reverse. No. 14-ranked Boise State showed why it rules supreme in the Mountain West Conference by beating Hawaii 59-37 before a sellout homecoming crowd of nearly 37,000 at Albertsons Stadium in Boise, Idaho. The curse of the blue Smurf turf continued for the Rainbow Warriors as they dropped to 0-7 lifetime in the famed facility in […]

On paper and in the skies, Saturday’s contest between Hawaii and Nevada in Reno did not have the makings of one of the most lopsided road victories in Rainbow Warriors program history. UH entered as a 2 1/2-point underdog. Then it started snowing in Reno a few hours before game time. That stopped — but a persistent, cold drizzle hung over Mackay Stadium all night. >> HAWAII VS. NEVADA PHOTO GALLERY Well, the Warriors shrugged all that off for a […]

It wasn’t exactly what Hawaii coach Nick Rolovich was looking for on this homecoming night at Aloha Stadium, but the end result didn’t disappoint. Rainbow Warriors quarterback Cole McDonald threw four touchdown passes to four different receivers to lead the Hawaii football team to a 35-16 nonconference victory over Central Arkansas before an Aloha Stadium crowd of 20,252. He hit 25 of 32 passes for 300 yards. He also had one interception that contributed to the four turnovers UH had […]