No not Nevada Fresno can throw on them at will. Hawaii wins outright at Utah St. as a 24 point dog I think.
Interesting stat over the last 201 minutes of football Hawaii has outscored their opponents 126-111. They ran off 34 straight vs. Fresno to nearly win and then lost 3 close games after that.
Hawaii is a lot stronger in this game than their 0-7 record suggests. First of all they have not lost a game by more than 22 points all year so just that makes this spread very strange. Also they have had ridiculous bad QB play from everyone but Schroeder skewing their stats
Hawaii averaged only 12 points in the 3 games where Schroeder played less than a half due to not starting or getting injured(Nevada game), and they have scored 32 a game the last 4 games where he has gone the whole way.
Another xfactor is senior tailback Joey Iosefa who has been hurt the whole year(2 carries) is back. He is a big guy and a veteran and will be huge in moving the chains in short yardage due to his power and also will help as a 3rd down back in the passing game. Hawaii also has gotten healthy on the defensive line in the middles of the year they were literally out of defensive tackles but now they are at full strength. Utah St. a couple minor injuries to a starting TE and 2nd string RB.
Of course Utah St. suffered a huge injury loss about a month ago of star QB Chuckie Keeton. The guy they are going with right now has only started one game in his career (true fr.) He has done nothing with his feet this year -3 rushing yards so I am skeptical how well he can run their spread offense with his lack of experience I doubt he will light it up throwing the ball even against Hawaii.
Keeton is one of the best in the country, yes the books know he is out but I still think Utah St. is getting too much credit for what he did
The huge spread should also benefit Hawaii in this spot I think they will feel disrespected because they have been playing decent of late and may be a letdown for Utah St. thinking this is an easy game.
Now the one problem is Utah St. is a good defensive team and Hawaii is not going to put up 35+ points but they should be able to move the chains and Utah St. could be shaky/conservative on offense here.