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Oregon Ducks officially remove Hawaii game from 2024 football schedule

The Oregon Ducks have officially removed the season-opening game vs. the Hawaii Rainbow Warriors from their 2024 schedule.

There has been a lot of reporting over the last couple of months, both from John Canzano and The Oregonian’s James Crepea, that the Oregon Ducks were not going to end up traveling down to Hawaii to kick off the 2024 football season against the Rainbow Warriors.

That move is now official, with Oregon removing that game from their 2024 schedule online.

According to Canzano, the Ducks — who had an extra 13th game on their schedule for this year — asked Hawaii to drop the game in order to balance out their slate. The Rainbow Warriors also have a dilemma going on with their football stadium, with their longtime home, Aloha Stadium, being closed in 2020 for safety reasons. Since then, the team has been playing games in a 15,000-seat capacity venue.

There are hopes that Oregon and Hawaii can reschedule their non-conference date for the future, but at the moment nothing has been solidified. For the time being, the Ducks will kick off their 2024 campaign on August 31st at home against the Idaho Vandals.

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Colorado State vs Hawai’i: How The Rams Can Win, How to Watch, Odds, Predicition

The Rams are in Hawai’i needing just one win to reach bowl eligibility. Here’s how CSU can beat the Warriors to do so.

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Colorado State vs Hawai’i: How The Rams Can Win, How to Watch, Odds, Predicition

The Rams are on the Islands to face the Warriors

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Can the Rams reach bowl eligibility?

WEEK 13: Colorado State Rams (5-6, 3-4 MW) vs. Hawai’i Rainbow Warriors (4-8, 2-5 MW)

WHEN: Saturday, November 25th — 9:00 p.m. MST / 8:00 p.m. PST

WHERE: Jonah Field at War Memorial Stadium; Laramie, WY (29,181)

WEATHER: Partly Cloudy, high of 81 degrees

STREAM: Team1 Sports App

RADIO: K99-FM 99.1 / ESPN 1600 AM (Colorado)

SERIES RECORD: This will be the 28th all time matchup between the two schools. CSU leads 16-11

LAST MEETING: Colorado State won 17-13 in Fort Collins last season.

WEBSITES: CSURams.com, the official Colorado State athletics website | HawaiiAthletics.com, the official Hawai’i athletics website

GAME NOTES (PDF): Colorado State | Hawaii

ODDS: Colorado State -5.5

OVER/UNDER: 53.5

SP+ PROJECTION: Colorado State by 6.0

FEI PROJECTION: Colorado State by 6.0

PARKER FLEMING PROJECTION: Colorado State 57.45% win probability (29.07 to 26.58)

Now onto some keys to victory for the Rams.

Three Keys to a colorado state victory

1. DBs Wake Up

After facing a gauntlet of teams that run the ball more often than not, the Rams now find themselves in a virtual mirror matchup. Hawai’i throws the ball as often as CSU wants to and the Rams defensive backs will need to be up for the job.

Brayden Schager is as wild a thrower as Brayden Fowler-Nicolosi is. Five more touchdowns and one less interception, but Schager isn’t afraid to throw it in there. Everyone from Jack Howell to Henry Blackburn to Chigozie Anusiem need to be ready to play a full 60 minutes at speed.

2. Pressure, Pressure, Pressure

Hawai’i has allowed 38 sacks. Colorado State has collected 32 sacks. Something has to give and the Rams need to make sure it isn’t them. 12 players have collected at least 0.5 sacks for CSU and everyone needs to step up against the Warriors.

They also need to not over run the play. Schager isn’t that much of runner, but he will run if necessary. Mohamed Kamara, Nuer Gatkuoth, and company need to set the edge and maintain it if they want to get off the field and not let Hawai’i drive down the field.

3. Take Your Shots

Tory Horton, Justus Ross-Simmons, Louis Brown, Dallin Holker, and Dylan Goffney. The Rams receiving core has been outstanding this year. All five have at least two touchdowns and at least one 40 yard catch down the field. Against the Warriors, they all need to be at their best one more time.

We can’t forget Justin Marshall. The freshman has burst onto the scene in these past two games with 217 yards and one touchdown on 37 carries. The run game will be key to keep the Hawai’i defense honest and Marshall has shown he can break plays open.

what will happen

It’s the last game of the season. One win. 1-0. That’s the goal for the Rams. Win and in. Bowl eligibility is in grasp. Now they need to go take it. And they will. The offense has been better somewhat than last year. The defense has taken a step back. But against Hawai’i, it all comes together and the Rams reach bowl eligibility for the first time since 2017.

Final Score: Colorado State 38, Hawai’i 27

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Nevada Football: Wolf Pack Lose To Hawaii 27-14

Nevada Football: Wolf Pack Lose To Hawaii 27-14 Turnovers and poor offensive play doomed Nevada on Saturday as Hawaii ends the Wolf Pack’s two game winning streak Contact/Follow @BrandonGBlake & @MWCwire Nevada’s Winning Streak Ends At Two; Wolf …

Nevada Football: Wolf Pack Lose To Hawaii 27-14

Turnovers and poor offensive play doomed Nevada on Saturday as Hawaii ends the Wolf Pack’s two game winning streak

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Nevada’s Winning Streak Ends At Two; Wolf Pack Fall to Hawaii 34-24

Well that winning streak was fun while it lasted, Nevada.

 

The Wolf Pack’s two game winning streak crashed in embarrassing fashion on Saturday. Nevada fell 27-14 to the Hawaii Rainbow Warriors. The same Rainbow Warriors team that lost four straight in ugly fashion before defeating Nevada in Reno.

Nevada let a struggling Hawaii program go into their stadium and push them around. The Rainbow Warrior offense that struggled to run the ball, ran the ball well to the total of 139 yards. The Hawaii pass offense had its way with Nevada’s secondary, especially Pofele Ashlock who caught nine passes for 87 yards and two touchdowns. Schager had a good game as he completed 21 of 38 passes for 203 yards  and two touchdowns. Most importantly, Schager did not throw an interception against Nevada.

The Wolf Pack offense well…the less said about that unit the better. They did play slightly better in the second half when AJ Bianco (5 for 14 passing 76 yards , one INT) was under center at QB but it was not enough.  Then there were Nevada’s turnovers and poor offensive line play. Nevada did a great job in not turning the ball over in the last two games but against Hawaii, Nevada turned the ball over twice which severely hurt the Nevada offense and kept them from winning the game.

Also, Nevada’s offensive line (I refuse to call them The Union until they start being good again)  failed to protect QBs Brendon Lewis and AJ Bianco. Hawaii’s defense sacked the Wolf Pack QBs a combined six times and the Hawaii defense had 10 tackles for loss. To say that Nevada’s offensive line once again looked poor and pathetic is not even scratching the surface.

And after a poor and dreadful effort against Hawaii, the Wolf Pack are 2-7 and got nothing much to play for in this 2023 season except to maybe save Ken Wilson’s job but…LOL.

After a scoreless first quarter, Things picked up in the second quarter when Nevada QB Brendon Lewis (1 for 8, 36 yards five carries 11 yards) fumbled the ball and Hawaii’s Elijah Palmer recovered the ball. Hawaii’s offense took six plays to get on the scoreboard when PK Matthew Shipley connected on a 50 yard field goal to make the score 3-0 Hawaii.

Towards the end of the first half, Hawaii went on an eight play, 57 yard scoring drive that ended when QB Dalen Morris scored on a one yard touchdown run. The PAT made it 10-0 Hawaii and Hawaii was not done scoring to end the first half. After another Nevada punt, Hawaii went on an 11 play, 65 yard scoring drive which concluded when Brayden Schager connected with Pofele Ashlock on a 26 yard touchdown pass to put Hawaii up 17-0 at the end of the half. 

Before the end of the first half, Nevada switched QBs as AJ Bianco came in for Brendon Lewis. Bianco finished the remainder of the first half and started the entire second half. With Bianco, the Wolf Pack offense did have some life left in it. On their second offensive possession Nevada scored on a two yard Sean Dollars touchdown run to cut Hawaii’s lead to 17-7.

But then the mistakes on offense reared its ugly head for Nevada. On the Wolf Pack’s next possession Bianco’s pass was intercepted by Hawaii’s Peter Manima. Hawaii’s offense took advantage of that turnover as they took only two plays to score a touchdown. Schager connected with Ashlock for the second time on a five yard touchdown pass to extend Hawaii’s lead to 24-7.

But Nevada still had a little bit of fight left in them. The Wolf Pack punted the ball to Hawaii only for Hawaii’s Steven McBride to fumble the ball and Nevada’s Aedan Seiuli recovered the ball. Nevada did take advantage of that turnover when Sean Dollars scored on a seven yard touchdown run to cut the Hawaii lead to 24-14. 

On Hawaii’s next possession on offense, the Rainbow Warriors moved the ball well and got the ball into Nevada territory. Hawaii’s offense did stall at the Nevada 33 yard line and they had to settle for a field goal. Matthew Shipley’s second 50 yard field goal attempt of the game was good and Hawaii extended the lead to 27-14.

Nevada’s offense in the fourth quarter had two chances to cut into the lead but they turned the ball over on downs both times. The first one was when Nevada drove the ball on a 12 play, 66 yard drive that took over five minutes of game clock. Despite that long drive, Bianco could not connect with Jamaal Bell on fourth down and Hawaii forced the turnover on downs. 

Nevada’s last offense series of the game was another turnover on downs. The Wolf Pack offense got the ball in Hawaii territory but could not convert on a fourth down to extend the drive. 

And that was the end of the game and Nevada’s two game winning streak. 

Nevada had a chance to extend their winning streak against a Hawaii team that had been outscored 162-75 during their four game losing streak. But Nevada’s offense sputtered and turned the ball over and the defense could not stop Hawaii’s passing offense. 

Now the Wolf Pack are 2-7 and facing a tough three game stretch to close out the season. More than likely, Nevada will be an underdog in all of their final three games and if they lose all three, what will be the future of Ken Wilson in Reno? 

Can Coach Wilson and Nevada bounce back next week and finish the season strong? I have my doubts but we will see next week. 

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Nevada Football: How the Wolf Pack Can Win: How To Watch, Odds, Prediction

Nevada Football: How the Wolf Pack Can Win: How To Watch, Odds, Prediction The Nevada will look to make it three wins in a row as they host the Hawaii Rainbow Warriors Contact/Follow @BrandonGBlake & @MWCwire Here is How Nevada Can Win Its Third …

Nevada Football: How the Wolf Pack Can Win: How To Watch, Odds, Prediction

The Nevada will look to make it three wins in a row as they host the Hawaii Rainbow Warriors

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Here is How Nevada Can Win Its Third Straight Game Against Hawaii

WEEK 10: Nevada Wolf Pack (2-6 , 2-2 MW) vs Hawaii (2-7, 0-4 MW)

WHEN: Saturday, November 4th – 1:00pm PT/2:00pm MT

TV: Nevada Sports Net and Spectrum Sports. Here is how you can watch the game on Spectrum.

RADIO: Nevada is on 105.7 KOZZ in Reno and Hawaii is on ESPN Honolulu 1420AM/92.7FM

SERIES RECORD:  Nevada leads the all time series 15-12. The last meeting between the schools was in 2022 when Hawaii won in Honolulu 31-16.

WEBSITES: NevadaWolfPack.com, the official Nevada athletics website | HawaiiAthletics.com, the official Hawaii athletics website

ODDS:  Nevada (-3.5)

SP+ PROJECTION:  Nevada (2.5)

FEI PROJECTION: Nevada by 11.5

The Nevada Wolf Pack return to action on Saturday afternoon as they face the Hawaii Rainbow Warriors.

The Wolf Pack are coming off a 34-24 victory over New Mexico last week which gave Nevada their second straight victory. Nevada is looking for their third win in a row against a Hawaii team that is 2-7 and have lost four straight games.

Nevada looks to continue to ride a good defense and an offense that doesn’t make mistakes to win another game. The Warriors are looking to snap a four game losing streak.

 

Can the Wolf Pack make it three wins in a row against a slumping Hawaii team?

 

Here is my article on how Nevada can win

 

Contain QB Brayden Schager and his top wide receivers

Despite Hawaii struggling this season, Hawaii QB Brayden Schager is performing very well leading the Rainbow Warrior offense. Schager leads the Mountain West in passing touchdowns with 20 this season. Schager also leads the Mountain West in passing yards with 2,565. Schager is completing 63 percent of his passes and gaining 6.9 passing yards per attempt. 

Two of Schager’s main passing targets are freshman Pofele Ashlock and senior Steven McBride. Ashlock is third in the Mountain West in receptions with 51 while recording 572 yards(11.72 yards per catch and five touchdowns. Steven McBride is second on the team (seventh in the Mountain West) with 43 receptions while recording 733 yards (17.05 yards per catch) and eight touchdowns. McBride’s 733 receiving yards places him third in the conference and his eight touchdowns place him second only Utah State’s Jaylen Royals.

Hawaii is a team that is going to throw the ball a lot and Nevada’s secondary must be ready to defend the pass well on Saturday. Schager is a very good QB so the Wolf Pack must put pressure on him and force him to make mistakes. 

Also the Wolf Pack secondary must also contain the talented receivers in Ashlock and McBride. If Nevada is to win their third straight game, they must contain Schager and the Hawaii pass offense.

 

Keep giving Jamaal Bell the ball

Jamaal Bell may only be 5-foot-10 but he has become a big time player in the Nevada offense. In the last two games, the Wolf Pack has used Bell mostly as a running back due to the injuries of Ashton Hayes and Sean Dollars. 

But when Bell is running the ball,he has been very effective. In the last two games, Bell has rushed the ball 15 times for 104 yards and a touchdown. 

Even with Sean Dollars and Conner Noah coming back from injury, the Nevada offense must continue to give the ball to Bell in a variety of ways. 

Either with Bell behind QB Brendon Lewis (who will start despite being hurt in the New Mexico game) or through reversals or in the passing game, Bell must touch the ball for Nevada to win on Saturday.

 

Continue to win the turnover battle

In the last two games, the Nevada Wolf Pack defense has forced four turnovers ( three interceptions and one fumble). In that same time, the Nevada offense has turned the ball over zero times.

In a shocking surprise, Nevada has won their last two games and it is because they have protected the ball. 

Nevada’s offense is not going to confuse anyone with an offense that scores points in bunches. But the offense has done a very good job of protecting the ball even if they do not score points. The Wolf Pack defense is playing some very good football lately and they have forced turnovers which is critical to give Nevada a chance to win.

If Nevada is going to win on Saturday, it will be because the Nevada offense continues to play turnover free football. While also protecting the ball on offense, the Nevada defense forces turnovers to give the Wolf Pack offense a chance to score points. 

 

Prediction

Nevada 27 Hawaii 23

The Wolf Pack played their most complete game last week against New Mexico. Offense, defense and special teams were all on point for Nevada. 

Nevada has a chance to extend their winning streak to three in a row against Hawaii. Hawaii has lost four straight and has struggled to defend as they have given up more than 30 points in their last four games. 

Hawaii struggles to defend but they do boast a very good passing offense with QB Brayden Schager leading the Rainbow Warriors. Schager has talented receivers in Pofele Ashlock and Steven McBride and the passing offense will test the Nevada defense that while playing well, still struggles in pass defense. 

I like Nevada in this contest because the defense will continue to play well and force some turnovers (Schager has thrown 12 interceptions this season which leads the Mountain West) and the offense will continue to protect the ball and score points off of Hawaii’s turnovers. 

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ESPN ‘College GameDay’ crew picks winner between No. 11 Oregon and No. 19 Colorado

ESPN ‘College GameDay’ crew picks winner between No. 11 Oregon and No. 19 Colorado.

The day has finally come.

After a couple of months of build-up and a week of hype, Deion Sanders and the No. 19 Colorado Buffaloes are just hours away from stepping foot inside Autzen Stadium and taking on the No. 11 Oregon Ducks.

We’ve heard a lot, we’ve read a lot, and we’ve made a lot of predictions for what we think is going to take place.

Saturday morning was the time for the experts to make their predictions.

While ESPN’s flagship show College GameDay set up shop across the country in South Bend for No. 6 Ohio State vs. No. 9 Notre Dame instead of in Eugene, the guys on the show made their picks for Ducks vs. Buffs. Here where they all landed:

Ranking Oregon’s top 10 players in win vs. Hawaii according to PFF grades

Oregon’s PFF grades from Week 3 feature two quarterbacks and a true freshman at the top of the list.

Week 4 has finally rolled around, and we are all eager to look ahead to the upcoming marquee matchup against Deion Sanders and the Colorado Buffaloes.

Before we do that, though, there are still some things that we can learn from the Oregon Ducks’ week 3 win over the Hawaii Rainbow Warriors. It was a lopsided affair in which the Ducks were able to get some of they young players onto the field for some valuable game experience. What we want to do is look back at the stats and grades from Pro Football Focus to highlight the players who had the biggest days.

In a pleasing sight to all Oregon fans, there were a pair of QBs near the top of the list, and a true freshman defender who was graded higher than the rest.

Here are the top-rated players according to PFF grades in Week 3 for the Ducks (minimum 10 snaps).

Snap-Count Takeaways: Biggest notes from Oregon’s usage report vs. Hawaii

The RB split becomes more clear, Cole Martin displays his versatility, and Kris Hutson makes his 2023 season debut. Our snap-count takeaways for Week 3.

Once again on Saturday night, the Oregon Ducks took a big lead early over a Group of Five school and spent much of the second half getting young players incredibly valuable game minutes inside Autzen Stadium.

You know what that means. … It’s time for some snap-count takeaways.

While we often look at the Oregon Ducks usage report throughout the season to find some nuggets of information, it is after blowout games like this that  we find it most useful. With the Ducks using 72 players on Saturday night, it gave us a good sense of who is getting rotation minutes and who still has work to do to gain the trust of the coaching staff.

Without further ado, here are our snap-count takeaways from Week 3:

Report Card: Ducks show vast improvement but flags are still a problem

Oregon had a very good report card for the 55-10 win over Hawaii, but penalties continue to be a problem as Pac-12 play begins.

It’s a happy report card for the Oregon Ducks football team after the 55-10 victory over Hawaii. Every position group played well for the most part, but the Ducks still have a problem with flags.

After 14 penalties a week ago, anything less could be considered an improvement, but Oregon was flagged nine times, which is still far too many. A few of those penalties extended the two scoring drives Hawaii managed. This game could have easily been a shutout performance, but silly unnecessary penalties allowed the Rainbow Warriors 10 points.

In the big scheme of things, the penalties didn’t hurt, but against Pac-12 competition, they will hurt and could cost the Ducks a victory.

5 takeaways from Oregon’s blowout win over Hawaii in Week 3

Oregon’s secondary looked great, and Ty Thompson was very solid. However, penalties remain a huge issue for the Ducks.

The Oregon Ducks took care of business on Saturday evening in Autzen Stadium, ending their nonconference schedule with a blowout 55-10 victory over the Hawaii Rainbow Warriors.

For the most part, it was an impressive showing from both the offense and the defense, but were frustrating penalties that ended up souring the victory for head coach Dan Lanning.

In the end, though, the Ducks showed on both offense and defense that they are rolling and ready for the upcoming Pac-12 schedule, starting next week with a marquee game against the Colorado Buffaloes.

Before we get into that matchup, though, let’s see what we learned in Week 3 against Hawaii. Here are our biggest takeaways from the game:

Notable quotes from Dan Lanning after 55-10 win over Hawaii

“We’re not gonna be satisfied with that result. That being said, I did think that are we really close to playing a complete game.”

There were many positives to take away from the 55-10 victory for the Oregon Ducks on Saturday night against the Hawaii Rainbow Warriors. There were some frustrations as well.

It was all front and center for head coach Dan Lanning after the game. He started the postgame press conference by talking about how the Ducks’ nine penalties made this victory a little bit less sweet than it could have been otherwise.

While the nonconference schedule is behind the Ducks, Lanning and his squad now look to an intriguing Week 4 matchup with the Colorado Buffaloes. Before we get to that, though, let’s take a look at what Lanning had to say after the win on Saturday: