UH at SJSU Wrap-Ups

Here's a scoring breakdown and game stats from The Advertiser. Fun stats of the game: Colt Brennan broke school records with 44 completions on 75 attempts.

Michael Tsai writes about the emotional ups-and-downs of fans watching the game at Eastside Grill. A quote from a fan who thought the game was lost with UH down 14 points in the 4th quarter:

"The Heisman and the BCS bowl are out the window," he said. "They're just not going to happen now. They had a chance, but it's not going to happen and there's not going to be a second chance."

Still, Souza couldn't stay outside long, not while time remained on the clock and hope, however slim, still existed. With a sigh, he returned to the bar.

Stephen Tsai writes about the players keeping the faith:

In the UH huddle, Bess implored Brennan to listen to another mantra.

"I told Colt: 'Poise, poise, poise,' " Bess recalled. "He repeated that phrase. He was getting frustrated, but I told him: 'We're here for you.' "

Brennan said: "Obviously after four, five, however many interceptions I threw, I was flustered. I was frustrated. But that's why it's a team game. The team believed in me. They never, like, looked at me and said, 'Oh, he's screwing up.' They just said, 'We got you, Colt. We got you.' They said, 'Keep believing, Colt.' "

From Dave Reardon:

In one of the most stirring comebacks in University of Hawaii football history, the Warriors overcame bad weather, the road and a 14-point fourth-quarter deficit to beat San Jose State 42-35 in overtime last night at Spartan Stadium.

A crowd of 20,473 -- around 7,500 in green rooting for Hawaii -- and a national TV audience saw the Warriors battle back to score on two Colt Brennan touchdown passes in the final 3 minutes and 53 seconds.

Brian McInnis has a quote from Colt.

"We kept saying, 'Believe. Just believe,' " Brennan said. "It's amazing, the character of this team. All of a sudden, a fumble, we got a chance to tie it up, and we knew once it got into overtime it'd be over.

"Obviously you want to clean up the interceptions and a lot of the negative stuff," he added, "but to overcome those adversities and come out with a win says a lot about this team."

Back to Dave, with what the fans were chanting.

But it wasn't long before the Spartans' student section had good reason to chant "Overrated, Overrated" as UH fell behind by two touchdowns in the second half for the first time this season.

When it was over, though, ti leaves, conch shells and the ha'a prevailed, and the chants were "BCS, BCS" after No. 16 Hawaii's 42-35 overtime victory.

The article has a great quote from Blaze Soares, talking about his game-turning forced fumble.

"I saw the fullback, he's looking directly at me," Soares said. "I knew he was coming my way, so I already knew. I went with all my power and all my might and I went crush him. I heard him when I hit him, I heard him -- he felt it. Nice square hit."

And a quote from Ryan Grice-Mullins, in case any BCS bowl rep is reading this, ahem.

"And the fans," he added. "It's amazing how they follow us. It was like UNLV again. We need them and they help us."

Ferd Lewis writes about Blaze Soares' coming back from injuries to make the big play.

"That was the game," Brennan said. "That gave us our shot for overtime."

And, what a shot it was.

"This football team has played almost seven games and that's the first fumble we had this year," lamented San Jose State coach Dick Tomey. "We were the only team in the nation without a fumble."

Damin Esper writes about the great play of SJSU's defensive backs.

Reardon and McInnis have some game notes, including news about the UH receivers' performances, Adam Leonard's fumble recovery off of Blaze's big hit, and Blaze re-injuring his shoulder during the game, but saying he'll be ready for NMSU in two weeks.

Ferd Lewis writes about Ryan Grice-Mullins' great game, UH performing both the haka and the ha'a after the game, and according to Karl Benson, Fiesta Bowl reps being impressed with Hawaii's come-from-behind win.

And here's a video taken from the stands of UH fans' reactions to Myron Newberry's game-ending interception. Woot woot!