Colt Colt Colt

It's all about Colt, with his Walter Camp award yesterday, and his third WAC Offensive Player of the Week Award today, but he's a humble and generous guy, and he deflects praise to his teammates in this Dave Reardon article.

"It was a collective effort of the entire team, no sacks, the receivers getting open and the defense played great," Brennan said. "Probably Nate should be co-player of the week. He definitely helped me look good."

He's also generous in Stephen Tsai's article and talks about seeing himself on ESPN.

"I was the last one going through security (at Ogden Airport)," Brennan recalled, "and everyone was in a room watching ESPN. I heard everyone cheering. I was trying to hurry through security. As I got close to the room, everybody started booing really loud. I was like, 'What's going on?' I looked at the TV, and I saw my face and some stats. And that was it. I saw one second of it."

If you want to see that ESPN clip I believe he was talking about, why lookie here, reader Charles has provided us with a link to a clip:



Thanks Charles! UPDATE: I had to change the link to a cleaner version of the same clip. The original was corrupted.

And here's another clip where Colt gets a gets a "helmet sticker" as Dave Reardon mentions in his article:



Pretty cool!

What's not cool is the injuries on the defensive line, as Stephen Tsai gives an update at the end of his article.

Defensive end Laupepa Letuli said he probably will miss up to three games after suffering torn scar tissue in his left knee. Earlier this season, he suffered a torn medial collateral ligament in that knee. He said he will undergo an MRI today.

Defensive end Rocky Savaiigaea said his sprained left ankle is "stiff." It is not known if Savaiigaea will be available for Saturday's game against visiting Louisiana Tech.

Let's hope there are no more injuries and Rocky and Laupepa's recovery goes smoothly.

Dave Reardon's Warrior Replay recounts the 5 big plays in the Utah State game. Here's an excerpt:

2. Dig this

The Setup: Hawaii 14, Utah State 3; less than 10:30 remaining, second quarter, Hawaii ball, first and 10 at own 40.

The Play: Utah State blitzes and Hawaii has the perfect antidote with a shovel pass to Nate Ilaoa. Ilaoa cuts through the remainder of the Utah State defenders, and outruns the pursuit for a 60-yard touchdown.

The Impact: Hawaii led by 11 even before fully adjusting to Utah State's defense. It would use the shovel to Ilaoa for another 60-yard gain in the third quarter, setting up Brennan's 12-yard pass to Davone Bess for a 35-10 lead.

Ilaoa: "Just a good game plan by Coach. They're packing the box with like nine guys. So we were able to get it open and pop it a couple of times."

See the above highlights to see Nate's touchdown run and Lou Holtz saying it should be illegal for a big guy to run that fast!

Speaking of ESPN, here's a quote from the St. Petersburg Times.

ESPN's Rece Davis did a commendable job filling in as host of College GameDay with Chris Fowler doing Saturday's Breeders' Cup. Davis' best line: "Look at these highlights. Watching Hawaii quarterback Colt Brennan is like watching a video game." Davis is right. It's like a video game set on the "rookie" setting. Brennan has thrown 39 touchdowns with only six interceptions. But he lives in Hawaii, not South Bend, so forget the Heisman.

That last line bugs me, but Hawaii just has to keep winning against quality teams to help change the perceptions.

And finally, Ferd Lewis is somewhat giddy thinking about a PAC-10 team playing UH in the Hawaii Bowl.

When it came to who would oppose the Western Athletic Conference entry, there was generally a collective yawn because whether it was Central Florida, Tulane or anybody else you could name from C-USA — and you can name all 12 members, right? — few in Hawai'i really cared.

The games were good, but the opposing team might as well have been Taxidermy Tech for all the tickets it sold. No knock on Conference USA, you understand, because if UH was playing in a bowl game in, say, Greenville, N.C., or Hattiesburg, Miss., it might not elicit much interest, either.

Not so with the Pac-10, this year's contracted supplier of the opposition, however. The Pac-10 has teams that have been heard of and seen on television. They have alumni here. No need to run to the library to find out what the Green Wave is or refresh the memory on a Golden Hurricane. The nickname recognition game is real easy when it is a Bruin, Sun Devil or Husky.

And if the Warriors come into the bowl at 11-2 like many think they have a chance to, you'd at least like them to play somebody you've heard of if you are going to be spending Christmas Eve afternoon watching them. Even the sixth-place team from the Pac-10 has more cachet here than the best C-USA team. So it was practically providential that when the Hawai'i Bowl worked out a deal with the conferences to rotate in the Pac-10 this is the year it starts.

I just hope Hawaii gets to blow out a good team rather than a mediocre team. Eh, jus joke cuz! GO WARRIORS!!!!