Hawai'i (0-1) travels to Wyoming. No market line yet; the model gives Hawai'i (0-1) a 61% shot.
What’s at stake
Wyoming
- Wyoming hasn’t beaten a ranked opponent since 2023.
Hawai'i
- Hawai'i hasn’t beaten a ranked opponent since 2021.
The series
Wyoming leads the series 17-12
29 meetings since 1978 · Hawai'i won the last meeting
- 2025Hawai'i 27–7
- 2023Wyoming 42–9
- 2022Wyoming 27–20
- 2021Hawai'i 38–14
- 2020Wyoming 31–7
Face-off
What each fanbase carries into this one.
Hawai'i
The chip · vs the national mediaWarrior fans are sick of being the road trip nobody wants and the time zone nobody watches — a program that has to win twice as convincingly to get half the respect, and knows the mainland forgets it exists by Sunday morning.
What this game touches
The 2008 Sugar Bowl blowout. The unbeaten 2007 dream — Colt Brennan, a No. 10 final ranking, the first non-BCS island team to crash the party — ended 41-10 against Georgia, a national stage that doubled as the doubters' favorite exhibit that the islands couldn't hang.
Wyoming
The chip · vs the national mediaCowboy fans are tired of being filed under 'cold, remote, forgettable' by people who've never had to play a December night in Laramie. They say the altitude humbles every recruiting-ranking darling who comes to War Memorial thinking it'll be easy.
What this game touches
The 4-8 slip after the Bohl steadiness. Craig Bohl built a decade of bowl trips and toughness, then handed off to Jay Sawvel — and 2025 backslid to 4-8, no bowl, the kind of season that tests whether the program's altitude-and-grit identity still wins games or just describes them.
Best players
Wyoming
- Brayden Johnson (LB) · 2025: 74 tackles
- Evan Eller (LB) · 2025: 62 tackles
- Jones Thomas (S) · 2025: 46 tackles
Hawai'i
- Kona Moore (DB) · 14 tackles
- Jamih Otis (LB) · 8 tackles
- Matagi Thompson (DB) · 8 tackles
The line, and the room
Wyoming fans are feeling better about their season (80th percentile) than Hawai'i fans are (39th) — even with Hawai'i favored here.
Conditions
Wyoming is 62% at home, 33% on the road since 2018 (28-17 home, 15-30 away).