Football Throwbacks: Colorado State
We’re introducing a new series here at Hawaii Warrior World: Throwbacks.
Starting with the 2018 UH football season, look for a new Throwback on game days about UH’s long-running (or in some cases, quite short) all-time series with that day’s opponent.
It starts today with Colorado State (1:30 p.m. HST kickoff, CBS Sports Network).
This series has not gone the way of the Rainbow Warriors for quite some time. The CSU Rams, a 17-point favorite today in Fort Collins, have won the last seven in a row, and 10 of the last 11, dating back to the teams’ days in the old WAC. They are 4-0 against UH in Mountain West competition.
CSU leads it 15-9 overall, including 8-2 in Fort Collins.
The Warriors’ last win? A 24-13 victory at Aloha Stadium on Nov. 7, 1992. At that point, UH led what was a competitive series 9-8.
Let’s take a look at that game.
At the time, CSU also had UH’s number, as coach Earle Bruce’s Rams had won three straight years. As Ferd Lewis wrote, “Colorado State, a team that hasn’t been good enough to win the conference but good enough to keep the Rainbows from doing it, became the latest victim and convert last night.”
UH, led by quarterback Michael Carter and running back Travis Sims on offense, Bryan Addison and Maa Tanuvasa on defense, and kicker Jason Elam, was putting together the first of its WAC championship years. With the win over CSU, Bob Wagner’s group improved to 7-1 overall and 5-1 in the WAC. Never had they been in first place that late into a conference season.
Sims rushed for 165 yards, including 104 in the first half, and two touchdowns. Carter contributed a 23-yard TD run, and Elam’s 39-yard field goal made it 24-0 UH in the third quarter. It allowed two CSU scores in the fourth but held on to win comfortably.
Here’s how the full Honolulu Advertiser sports pages on it looked the next day:
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It set up a huge game against San Diego State. UH got blasted at SDSU, 52-28, but won its next four, including 27-17 over Illinois in the Holiday Bowl, just UH’s second all-time bowl game, and the first on the mainland. At 11-2 and tied for the WAC championship at 6-2, UH had completed its most successful season to date.
Read in the last thread that Jahlani Tavai and John Ursua are out for today’s game. Not a good way to start the season. I predicted a Warrior win by a large margin, but now just hoping Warriors overcome by staying positive and bring the energy.
Very nice and needed first down on our first series!
Hawaii looking good. Red zone. 4th and goal. Touchdown!
Ursua! Larrio, you must be one proud Papa today! Go Halawa!
Damn, we are looking not too bad at all….l
It’s a win, but it doesn’t feel great. Our secondary coverage got burned time and time again in the 2nd half to make it a close game.
Great win! Never a doubt!!!
Any win on the road…especially at altitude is a great win. We never won at CSU since 1988 so we accomplished at lot with this win.
McDonald was awesome. If Chevan is neck and neck with McDonald, then he must be awesome too. Having two great QBs will make this team better. Cordeiro will force McDonald to practice hard all the time.
Nice touch on the island logo on helmets. Once I saw the uniforms, there was a great comfort, perhaps confidence. Great coaching job, great execution, great victory and now great expectations! College football, you’ve got to do enough to win but its all set up by the coaches. Congrats Rainbow Warriors!
Love it.
I wuz dea!!