Wednesday Night Recap: Hawaii @ LA Tech

Heading into last night, the Hawaii Warriors had scored at least one touchdown in 62 straight games.  Starting today, that streak no longer exists.  The Bulldogs were dominant all night with their 27-6 victory.

Hawaii actually got on the board first with a 36 yard field goal in the first quarter, but LA Tech running back Daniel Porter scored the first of his two rushing touchdowns to put the Dogs on top 7-3.  After a second quarter LA Tech field goal, Hawaii answered with another FG of their own with just 8 seconds left in the half to cut the deficit to four. 

It was all Bullogs on the second half with another Porter TD, a Myke Compton TD, and a final Matt Nelson FG for good measure in the 4th quarter.

Hawaii quarterback Greg Alexander was sacked five times and threw two interceptions on the night.  Alexander had to be replaced late by sophomore Bryant Moniz who didn't throw any picks, but was just 5-for-11 passing.

I didn't personally watch the game so I don't have much to add myself other than the fact that I was very wrong in my prognostication of this one.

Wild Wednesday: Hawaii @ Louisiana Tech

Finally!  The first Wednesday night football game of the season!  Only had one day to get through this week when there weren't any live football games and that was last night.  Onto tonight's matchup  Hawaii @ Louisiana Tech.

Ok, so I know absolutely nothing about either of these teams right now.  The Bulldogs come into the game with a 1-2 record with losses against Auburn and Navy and a win against Nicholls State.  The Warriors are 2-1 with wins over Central Arkansas and @ Washington State, and came 36 seconds away from defeating UNLV before the Rebels tossed a 15 yard TD pass to win the game.

The Bulldogs have an efficient quarterback in Ross Jenkins who has 662 yards and a 3/2 TD/INT ratio.  Daniel Porter has nearly half the carries for the team, but only has a 3.5 Yards Per Carry average.  11 different receivers have caught the ball with just two having double digits in catches, but one more with 9 and another with 8. 

The Warriors sport another amazing system quarterback in Greg Alexander.  The senior opened the season as the starter against Florida last year, but didn't see action over the next five games.  He took over as the starter against Nevada and never gave the role back guiding the Warriors to a 4-3 record to close out the season with two of those losses against BCS bowl participant Cincinnati and Notre Dame in the Hawaii Bowl.  Alexander already has 1234 yards in three games with a 9/2 TD/INT ratio.  Also, three receivers already have more than 10 catches with 2 having at least 20.  The third, Brodney Bradly, is still at 18.

Even with a little bit of research, I still can't say I know much about either of those squads.  I can see Hawaii is still running the Run 'N Shoot offense that has been their staple for many years.  LA Tech is still the southern whipping boy for a variety of SEC schools each season.

Vegas has the Bulldogs as 4.5 point favorites at home which I can't disagree with, but I just don't know.  I'm going with recent history and picking Hawaii to shred the Bulldog defense in a classic WAC style shootout 38-31.