Wyoming's Two Backs Run Hawaii Out of the Building
Hawaii threw the ball 44 times, completed 28 of them, piled up 226 yards and went home with 10 points. That is a hard line to explain, and the explanation is on the other side of the ball: Wyoming ran it 38 times for 183 yards and scored all three of its touchdowns on the ground in a 27-10 win.
It started small. Erik Sandvik kicked a 28-yard field goal, Sean Olvera-Harle answered with one of his own from the same distance, and the game sat tied at 3-3 late in the first quarter. That was the last time it was even. Sandvik added another from 23 yards, then Markell Holman punched in a one-yard run with 3:05 left in the half and Wyoming went to the locker room up 13-3.
Neither team scored in the third quarter, so the fourth began with Holman breaking off an 18-yard touchdown run at 14:52 to make it 20-3. Hawaii finally found the end zone at 12:11, Micah Alejado hitting Devon Tauaefa from 20 yards, and for a few minutes it was a 10-point game. Samuel Harris closed that door with an 18-yard run at 1:46. Hawaii never led and never got inside a touchdown.
The odd part is that nobody turned it over. Neither team lost a fumble or threw an interception, and each defense sacked the other quarterback three times. Hawaii even finished with 328 total yards to Wyoming's 387, which is closer than the scoreboard looks. Yards just did not become points for the Rainbow Warriors, who went 28 of 44 through the air with one touchdown to show for it.
The Cowboys move to 2-2. Hawaii falls to 1-3. For fantasy, this was a committee that worked: Harris and Holman finished first and second on the game's scoring list, and both set season highs. Tyler Hughes threw 17 of 23 for 204 yards and no touchdowns, which tells you where the points came from.