It's called "The Return of the Spread Attack."
Eeek! Run for your lives!
Surely, Rainbow rooters haven't forgotten the Bob Wagner and Paul Johnson offensive attack, which featured the fullback running up the middle on every play of the game.
OK, that's a stretch. Maybe it was every other play from scrimmage.
And, yes, the spread attack did lead UH to the pigskin promised land in 1992, when the team finished 11-2 and beat Illinois in the Holiday Bowl.
But that was when Michael Carter was the quarterback and Travis Sims the fullback. Those two guys could run with the ball - and take the constant pounding that came with it.
The spread turned sour after that season, though, for a couple of reasons.
One, UH didn't have the proper athletes to run it. Two, it was easily defended after a while - especially if you didn't have the proper athletes to run it.
After a few too many seasons, opposing defensive coaches were watching the UH game films and falling off their chairs from laughing so hard.
I mean, Mel Brooks was jealous.
As we all know, Johnson shipped out to coach at the Naval Academy and Wagner was fired - partly because he kept running the spread, which bored the UH fans silly and stopped them from coming to the games.
ANYWAY, that's old news. The spread shoe is on the other foot this weekend as Ohio University and former UH assistant Mike Sewak come to town to face the new and already-improved Rainbows.
They're still the winless Rainbows, thanks to a late collapse against Boston College. But the team played a good game against the stronger Eagles and showed a lot of promise.
Now it's time for UH defensive coordinator Don Lindsey to split a gut as he watches the Bobcats try to grind it out on film.
Ohio is a 19-point underdog, so Hawaii is expected to roll to its first victory of the young season.
The only way that UH could blow it would be if the Rainbows were overconfident and didn't prepare with the same intensity that they brought to the near-upset of Boston College.
I doubt that Fred vonAppen will let that happen this week. The new coach and his staff surely realize that there is no cause for being cocky, even against a weaker team.
Look at last Saturday's terrible performance by the Eagles to see what can happen by not having the proper mental approach.
It took a lot of luck - and a referee's lousy penalty call - to let Boston College escape the islands with a last-second win.
SO the dreaded spread has spread to Ohio, thanks to Sewak, who is the Bobcats offensive coordinator. For now.
This boring offense is pretty much what you're forced to run if you can't recruit good athletes who can handle a passing game. There are a few exceptions, such as Air Force, but Ohio doesn't appear to be one of them.
The Bobcats are 1-0, though, after beating up on those darn Akron Zips in their season opener.
But this should be a good game for UH to fine-tune its "West Coast" offense, or at least this season's version of it.
This is also assuming that UH quarterback Glenn Freitas, who did a good job against Boston College, is healthy for the Ohio game. If Freitas is OK, it will give offensive coordinator Guy Benjamin a chance to tinker quite a bit more than in the Boston College game - when the Rainbows had to spring a few trick plays to keep it close.
I see this game as a rout for Hawaii, especially with that oldie-but-moldy offense that Ohio is lugging into town.
Spread the word.