Inoke Funaki bowed his head in the Hawaii locker room. Tyler Graunke, sitting next to last night's starter, winced.

Both quarterbacks keenly felt the pain of their team's third loss of the early season, and each of the Warriors' signal-callers were quick to volunteer themselves for the bulk of the blame to be passed around in San Jose State's comeback win over Hawaii, 20-17 at Aloha Stadium.

Funaki guided the Warriors to a 10-point advantage at halftime, but things unraveled in the second half as he tossed three interceptions by the time Graunke—hindered over the past two weeks by an injured wrist—got the nod to step in with 9:34 left in the game and the score 17-17.

For a short while, it seemed the midgame switch from Funaki to Graunke would again pay dividends, as it had when Funaki went out with a concussion against Weber State and Graunke roused the team to victory.

Graunke led the Warriors on a promising drive to the San Jose 24, but an unhindered Justin Cole plastered Graunke for a 13-yard sack and Dan Kelly's field-goal try from 55 yards was deflected.

“;I had to read every throw and made a couple bad ones, a couple good ones, but ... we were in field-goal range, then I took a sack, and that kind of messed us up,”; Graunke said. “;I'll take the fall for that because half the linemen heard the wrong call and that's my fault for not speaking up in the huddle.”;

He was wincing from a shot he thought he had taken “;to my ribs or kidney”; late in the game. He finished 5-for-9 for 52 yards.

Meanwhile, Funaki silently unstrapped his pads. He was 16-for-27 for 173 yards and 36 more on the ground.

“;I feel like a big part of it was me, all the turnovers,”; Funaki said. “;Our defense did all that, our defense came out firing. We turned the ball over, too many turnovers in that second half. ... You turn the ball over that many times ... you can't win.”;

Hawaii had six giveaways by the end of the night, including a pick thrown by Graunke taken by the Spartans' Duke Ihenacho at the Warriors 35 that led to the go-ahead field goal by Jared Strubeck.

“;I had a chance to win it, a chance to lead the team to victory but I blew it,”; Graunke said. He paused. “;Or, we blew it as a team. It just doesn't feel good, same feeling at Oregon, at Florida. Just doesn't feel good to lose.”;

Funaki felt particularly bad about putting his defense in tough spots. His final pick with 10:53 in the fourth set up the game-tying field goal.

“;For the defense it was bad, very, very bad situations,”; he said. “;No matter who you play, you don't give them any rest and you give the other team good field position, you're not gonna win.”;