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UH will play it’s last regular season game of the football season this year at Aloha Stadium. Kickoff is scheduled for 6:30 p.m. where the 6 and 6 University of Hawaiii Warriors take on the 8 and 3 University of Wisconsin Badgers who make the trip all the way from Madison, Wisconsin.

Parking at Aloha Stadium is as usual, normal tailgating rules, police enforcement, and of course, no tailgating afterwards (“you don’t have to go home but you can’t stay here” rules.)

Normal parking for football tailgating is that at 1 p.m. the Lower Halawa Parking Lot (Gates 3 and 4) will open and the Upper Halawa, UH Reserved, and Kamehameha lots will follow, opening at 2 p.m. If you’re looking to avoid the crowds, more parking (free) will be available at Radford High School, Kam Drive In, and Leeward Community College (LCC) with a $2 shuttle taking you to and from the stadium. This parking opens at 3 p.m.

The stadium will open for fans at 5 p.m. so you can watch the warm-ups or just get settled in your seats early.

Idaho has become bowl eligible for the first time in tens years. And they did it at the expense of Warriors last night.

Idaho beat the Warriors 35 – 23 and moves to 6 and 1 on the year and 3 and 0 in WAC conference play. Idaho came out victorious with a balanced offense of running and passing. But the big news was their defense, who, despite a great offensive showing by UH, was able to keep them out of the endzone.

UH quarterback, Bryant Moniz ,completed 30 of 42 passes for 360 yards. Which on any other day would be a great set of stats, but on this night, it wasn’t the case.

UH falls to 2 and 4 on the year, which doesn’t look good for their bowl eligibility.

Hawaii made it to another bowl a year after Colt Brennan lead the team to it’s first ever BCS birth with an undefeated regular season.  Although it’s not quite a BCS, Hawaii has something to cheer about with this years bowl selection.

Good for the football program of UH and also good for Hawaii tourism in general is the selection of Notre Dame to play the University of Hawaii in this years Hawaii Bowl on December 24th, 2008 at Aloha Stadium.   The Warriors, 7-6, will take on a struggling 6-6 Notre Dame.

Notre Dame, who’s strength of schedule is usually a high point, played some weaker teams this year and still had a subpar season.  Charlie Weis was on the verge of being fired before a late contract renewal and the Notre Dame hopefull didn’t think they’d be seeing a bowl game this year.

Hawaii on the other hand played above what the critics thought after loosing several key starters such as Colt Brennan to the draft and also their head coach, June Jones.  The surprise leaving of June Jones, coming after an undefeated season, left new comer Greg McMackin with some big shoes to fill.

The game also comes as a big boost to Hawaii tourism which has been suffering lately with the economic turmoil that has most of America and the world cutting down on vacations to paradise. Tickets for the game have been selling fast and with the game coming in the middle of the week, on Christmas Eve, the hope is that most people will make an extended trip of it. The Notre Dame faithful is usually represented well at any bowl game so there can be hope that Charlie Weis will be able to convince them to make the trip to Honolulu with him.

Finally! On the second day of the NFL draft, Colt Brennan was picked in the 6th round by the Washington Redskins. Scouting reports showed his light slowly fading during pre-Draft workouts, but let’s hope Colt shows them wrong and sticks it out long enough to start in the NFL someday. Recent hip surgery will keep in on the injured list for some time, so we’re all hoping Colt can bounce back and show everyone what a great, professional quarterback he is.

Exactly two months from today, we will find out where and when Colt Brennan will go in this year’s NFL draft. In the meantime, we just have to wait it out and see. Lucky for Colt Brennan fans, he’s right in the thick of things at the NFL Scouting Combine. His impressive performance this weekend may yet turn heads and prove he’s worth an early pick.

What are your thoughts? Where do you think he’ll go in the draft?

The University of Hawaii football team won their final game of the season against Washington in dramatic fashion to finish their season 12-0, the only unbeaten team in the Nation! Although their not playing for the National Championship they are playing a team that some people (including the coach) thought should be in the BCS Championship game.

The UH Warriors will take on Georgia in the Allstate Sugar Bowl on January 1st, 2008 at 7:30 pm. The Bulldogs are ranked 5th in the nation and some thought had a better shot at playing Ohio State in the Championship until the Coaches Poll came out on Sunday.

Regardless, the Warriors were psyched to get into a BCS game and are psyched to play such a tough opponent. The team and a mass of fans were at the Stan Sheriff center to watch the results live on ESPN and ESPN had an analyst at the Stan Sheriff interviewing fans, Coach Jones, and Colt Brennan on their reaction to the results of the bowl bid.

The Warriors will have to stay sharp as they have a little under a month without a game to stay primed for this meeting. Colt Brennan will also be making his play for the Heisman trophy despite several injuries this season which kept him out of some games.

If the expected crowd at Aloha Stadium is to be more than 30,000 people, we’ve got the best place for you to park.

If you’re unable to get to the game early, like 6 hours early to get a decent spot this last game, don’t fear the trek out to Ford Island. Some of you probably past the signs that said the only parking left around the stadium was Ford Island parking and you probably didn’t want to venture all the way over the Admiral Clarey Bridge. But for those of you that did you found a great little spot to park.

They take you all the way out on a huge open field, park ya, and shuffle you on a bus back across the bridge. And it doesn’t take that long, it’s a very efficient system. You come right back to Kam Hwy and Salt Lake and have an easy walk to most tailgaters that braved the crowds and started preparing your food and keeping your beer cold.

The cost is only $5 so you save $5 verses the stadium lots which can be a nightmare if you want to try and get out after the game in any reasonable time. With the Ford Island parking you can walk directly back to that intersection, hope on a bus (you may wait a few minutes for a bus but they have a ton so it’s not a long wait), and back to the lot you go.

The great thing is that they only have so many buses so there isn’t a line of cars waiting to get out. You cruise back over the bridge and have a straight shot onto Kamehameha Hwy going east bound. This can get you right back onto H1 and on your way.

We suggest this for those of you not fighting the Aloha Stadium parking crowds this Saturday vs Washington. Let you friends setup the good eats and show up casually late to take advantage of cold beer and good pupu’s.

It was a sell out crowd at Aloha Stadium as the Warriors defeated number 19 ranked Boise State to keep their BCS hopes alive.

It was a packed house, both inside the stadium and outside. People came to tailgate only, try and get a ticket, and just be around the buzz. For a work day, it didn’t look like much of the state was working at all, and rightfully so, the Warriors were making UH history and trying to creep up the BCS rankings for a shot at the Fiesta Bowl, or better!

LSU had just lost to Arkansas in triple overtime, the number 2 and number 4 teams were set to play the next night, and Hawaii was looking to be the only unbeaten team in major college football.

The team took the field to a huge roar and it was on. The student section (where we were sitting) didn’t really sit for almost the entire game. Paper was shredded and tossed. Poms were thrown backwards, and the Warriors were pumped.

UH’s defense which hasn’t always been the best in the league played outstanding, and Colt Brennan played like he truly was a Heisman candidate. He was 40 for 53 with 495 yards passing, 5 touchdown passes and 1 rushing touchdown.

In the end, Hawaii came out victorious, 39-27, the students rushed the field and the Warriors kept their BCS hopes alive while winning their first ever WAC Title.

Next week the Warriors look to round out the season with a home game on Saturday night against Washington.

The UH Warrior football team continues to gain in the AP and USA Today Polls with each win. Their most recent victory came this weekend against Fresno State where the Warriors scored 37 to Fresno’s 30.

UH fans were silent late in the game when star quarterback Colt Brennan was literally knocked out as he scrambled left on a pass play. The quarterback left the game with a concussion and is making a quick recovery, hopefully in time for the game this weekend.

Although the Warriors have been able to climb in the AP and the USA Today polls they’ve been unable to make it past 16 in the BCS poll, the one poll they most likely will need to make it to 12 to get into a BCS bowl.

However, they’re last few games, Nevada, Boise State, and Washington could catapult them into a top spot if they remain unbeaten. The national credibility of the WAC conference isn’t that great, even with a team like Boise State winning their BCS bowl last year.

If the warriors are to make it up to the top 10, where some analysts believe they belong, they’re going to have to show the nation, in these last few games, that they are for real. Big wins at Nevada and at home against Boise State and Washington would do just that.

This weekend the Warriors travel to Nevada for their game on Friday.

The UH Warrior Football team, which was resting this week with a bye, moved up in all the polls including the big one, the BCS where they may have a chance at playing in the BCS Tostidos Fiesta Bowl.

The Warriors moved up one spot to 17 in the BCS poll and moved up to 14th in both the Harris Interactive Poll and the USA Today Coaches Poll. They’re also now 16 in the AP poll as well.

Probably one of the more interesting comments I heard this weekend, as announcers around the nation doubt how good the Warriors really are, was a comment from Brent Musberger while calling the Michigan – Illinois game this weekend. He said, opposing Kirk Herbstreit, that the Warriors would make it to a BCS bowl, and insisted on it.

We’ll wait and see what the remainder of the Warriors season holds for them but this weekend they’ll have to make it past New Mexico State at Aloha Stadium.