Hawaii-San Jose St
Time: 4:30 PM ET
Spread: SJS -9.5
Total: 54

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Hawaii enters 2-8 as losers of its past four contests, and things won’t get any easier for the Warriors this week. Hawaii travels to San Jose State where it will find itself 9.5-point underdogs to the Spartans.

In the past two weeks, Hawaii has given up 84 points while scoring just 36 itself. On the year, the defense has allowed 28.6 points per game, but Colorado State lit the Warriors up for 580 yards last week while getting 287 via the pass and 293 from the rush. The Rams also completed 8-of-13 on third down, while Hawaii completed 10 of its 21 third-down attempts, while also committing three turnovers in the game.

The Warriors are a pretty poor offensive team, too, scoring just 20.1 points per game due to an offense that lacks any defined strengths either at WR, QB or in the backfield.

Ikaika Woosley has not been good at QB for Hawaii, completing just 48 percent of his passes with nine INTs on the year to his nine TDs. Woosley has also averaged just 2.1 yards per carry in his runs.

The best RB for Hawaii has been Steven Lakalaka, who has rushed for 646 yards on the season and averages 4.1 yards per carry. Joey Iosefa also has been good for 261 yards on 68 carries, while leading the Warriors in rush TDs with five.

San Jose State has dropped three straight games to fall to 3-6 on the season. Losses to Navy, Colorado State and Fresno State have all been within striking margin, but the Spartans have continued to fall short. The San Jose defense is allowing 29 points per game, and gave up 38 points in both of the last two weeks.

Last week, San Jose State led Fresno State 14-7 after the first quarter, but failed to score again until the 7:48 mark of the third quarter on a 19-yard pass to Brian Burrell. By that point, Fresno State already had 35 points to the Spartans’ 14, well en route to an easy win. Both teams exchanged field goals in the final period.

The Spartans remained competitive with Fresno in terms of yardage, with 436 yards to the Bulldogs’ 439. But San Jose State hurt itself with three turnovers and an ineffective rush game that saw 23 attempts at just 3.7 yards per rush.