Hawaii at #25, UH vs NMSU Wrap-Ups

UH is ranked #25 in today's AP poll. Woot woot!

The University of Hawaii football team moved into the Associated Press Top 25 today for the first time since 2007.

The Warriors, who are 9-3 overall with one regular-season game remaining, are 25th in balloting among national media.

UH received 40 votes in the USA Today coaches poll (#27), and 65 votes in the Harris Interactive poll (#28).

As always, huge thanks to the dude or dudette who keeps posting highlights from UH games on Youtube. Here's UHNMSU2010's Youtube page, which has tons of highlights from Hawaii's 59-24 victory over New Mexico state. Here's one of Alex Green's many ridiculous runs:



Stephen Tsai's wrap-up focuses on Green's ridiculous day.

"Usually when you get all of these rushing yards, it's the offensive line that gets the credit," left tackle Austin Hansen said. "We played hard, and we blocked hard, but the film will show my man broke tackles at the line of scrimmage and in the secondary. Alex had an outstanding game."

Green broke the 60-year-old record of 270 yards set by Peter Wilson.

Green said he had set a goal of a 1,000-yard season when he signed with UH in 2009 as a junior college transfer. He was a backup to Leon Wright-Jackson in 2009.

"I knew I made the right choice coming here," Green said. "I knew that in 2009."

Green is nominated for one of this week's ESPN Capital One Impact Performances of the Week. GO VOTE!



Teddy Feinberg of the Las Cruces Sun-News has a wrap-up.

"For defense, we say lets have them beat us rushing. And that's what they did," Aggie senior cornerback Davon House said. "And when we did stack the box to stop the run, we were left one-on-one with their best receiver, one of the top receivers in the nation. That's a bad matchup right there."

Stephen Tsai has some news and notes about Greg Salas and Scott Enos breaking school records, and a great quote from Kaniela Tuipulotu regarding Kamalu Umu's interception:

Tuipulotu said he was not surprised by Umu's pick.

"He's the world's most interesting man," Tuipulotu mused. "He found the Fountain of Youth but didn't drink from it because he wasn't thirsty."

Ferd Lewis writes about the wacky week that was.

I mean, let's have a show of hands for those who predicted back in September that the Warriors football team would win a WAC championship this fall -- and the Rainbow Wahine volleyball team wouldn't.

Yeah, sure.

And Chelsea Jensen of West Hawaii Today writes about Colt Brennan's release from the hospital yesterday.

"It is with (a) heavy heart that I am able to leave the hospital today, as my prayers and thoughts remain with Theresa Wang and her family. ... I ask that the same support I received be directed to Ms. Wang as she recovers from this unfortunate accident," said Brennan, 27, in a written statement released Saturday afternoon.