Hawaii 24th in USA Today Coaches Poll

Looks like Hawaii will be ranked #24 when the USA Today Coaches' Preseason Top 25 Poll is officially released tomorrow.

For the first time since the Bowl Championship Series began in 1998, three teams from conferences without automatic BCS bids are ranked in the preseason USA TODAY Coaches' Poll: No. 22 TCU, No. 23 Boise State and No. 24 Hawaii.

""I think there's narrowing,'' says Western Athletic Conference Commissioner Karl Benson, who has two teams in the preseason coaches' poll for the first time since USA TODAY took it over in 1991. ""I think there's almost an expectation that a team (from the WAC or Mountain West) will emerge.''

This is a great starting point for the Warriors, especially since the coaches' poll figures in the BCS rankings.

GO WARRIORS!!!!

UPDATE: Here's the Star-Bulletin article with the news. Here's the Advertiser article.

UPDATE 2: The link to the original story died, so maybe they were too early. Here's another one.