Kickoff is 4:30 p.m. Saturday at Ching Complex in Honolulu with the game televised on CBS and on KNBR 1050 AM. Stanford leads the series 4-0, including a 37-24 win to open the 2023 season, and Hawaii will visit Stanford in 2026 and 2030. Stanford hired Frank Reich and fields many transfers after a 3-9 season; seven potential starters transferred in. Hawaii returns 14 starters and features redshirt freshman Micah Alejado, who posted 469 yards and five TDs in his lone start and has not thrown an interception in 17 games dating to high school. Stanford's rush defense ranked 41st last season and held Hawaii to minus-5 rushing yards in 2023. Stanford will play in five time zones this season.
Frank Reich has come out of retirement to coach in college for the first time while GM Andrew Luck, his former QB at Indianapolis, searches for a permanent replacement. He will try to defy expectations at a program that went 3-9 (2-6 in conference) in its first year in the ACC and once again saw many of its top players transfer out. A program-record 17 transfers includes seven potential starters led by QB Ben Gulbranson, who spent the past five seasons at Oregon State.
Hawaii coach Timmy Chang (13-25, 8-15 in the Mountain West) is winless in six games against Power Four conference teams in three seasons. But this appears to be his best team since returning to his alma mater - Hawaii returns 14 starters from a team that went 5-7 last season, 3-4 in the Mountain West. Hawaii's pass-heavy attack is led by redshirt freshman Micah Alejado, who threw for 469 yards and five TDs against New Mexico in his lone start last season and hasn't thrown an interception in 17 games, dating back to his junior year of high school.
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