ASSOCIATED PRESS Hawaii quarterback Tim Chang was 35-for-57 for 360 yards in a loss to Boise State yesterday.
UH’s 10 minutes BOISE, Idaho >> Six times Hawaii left Boise State facing third or fourth down.
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By Dave Reardon
dreardon@starbulletin.comAnd six times the Broncos got the yards they needed -- all on one drive.
Does it get any better than that when you're leading 31-10 and you convert key play after key play and score a touchdown after you take the second-half kickoff?
Yes, if you manage to run 19 plays and take more than 10 minutes off the clock while you're doing it.
"It's pretty frustrating when you can't stop them from passing on third down," Hawaii safety Hyrum Peters said. "We needed to rush them and make some plays, but we couldn't."
The Warriors' defense, a unit that played so well in mismatches against Texas-El Paso and Southern Methodist, went up against a Boise State unit that had enough weapons to keep UH off guard all night -- especially during 10 minutes and 22 seconds of game-clock hell in the third quarter.
"I don't put a lot of stock in time of possession. Scoring points wins football games," said Broncos coach Dan Hawkins, sounding a lot like UH's June Jones. "But for us to come out and take 10 minutes off the clock, and be physical also, and put that thing in the end zone, that was definitely an exclamation mark."
B.J. Rhode and Brock Forsey provided the punctuation with a 5-yard shovel pass. The extra point made it 38-10, and UH hadn't touched the ball in the second half with 4:29 to go in the third.
"At halftime we knew we had them on their heels," Forsey said. "To be able to chew up the clock like that and score, that definitely set the tone for the second half. B.J. did a good job of converting some third downs and fourth downs and we were able to put it in the end zone."
Forsey carried five times for only 12 yards on the drive, as the Warriors stuffed most of his efforts. That just made it more infuriating for UH as Rhode completed four third-down passes for first downs (two to Billy Wingfield and one each to Lou Fanucchi and Jay Swillie).
Then an offsides penalty on fourth down at the Hawaii 14 gave BSU another first down.
After Forsey was stopped for no gain at the 9, David Mikell was thrown back for a 9-yard loss by Peters and Kenny Patton. But a 13-yard pass from Rhode to Mikell made it fourth-and-5 for the TD. Hawkins, who likes to go for it on fourth downs, did so, and Rhode and Forsey made him look like a genius.
"Six first downs on that drive," UH defensive coordinator Kevin Lempa said, shaking his head as he walked off the field. "We've got to force them to turn it over and force them to punt. And we didn't do that."
Time of possession usually means nothing to Jones, but this is the second loss of the season where he feels time ran out on his offense. He acknowledges that having the ball for at least some of that 10:22 might have helped.
"It ate up a lot of the quarter. The clock is a misnomer, really, but we knew what they were going to do," Jones said. "And they took it and they did it. There were no surprises."
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