{"id":128084,"date":"2020-10-01T13:26:08","date_gmt":"2020-10-01T23:26:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=128084"},"modified":"2020-10-01T13:26:08","modified_gmt":"2020-10-01T23:26:08","slug":"warriors-football-2020-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2020\/10\/01\/warriors-football-2020-season\/","title":{"rendered":"Warriors\u2019 2020 season schedule unveiled"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> 2<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minutes<\/span><\/span><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/manoa-athletics-football-2020-schedule.jpg\" alt=\"football player on a graphic with eight icons of teams football will play\" width=\"676\" height=\"381\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-128086\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/manoa-athletics-football-2020-schedule.jpg 676w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/manoa-athletics-football-2020-schedule-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/manoa-athletics-football-2020-schedule-130x73.jpg 130w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 676px) 100vw, 676px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/hawaiiathletics.com\/sports\/football\">University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai&#699;i<\/span> football team<\/a>\u2019s modified 2020 schedule was announced and it features an eight-game, Mountain West (<abbr title=\"Mountain West\">MW<\/abbr>) Conference-only slate. The schedule, which includes four home games at Aloha Stadium and four on the road, is subject to approval from state, county and local officials.<\/p>\n<h2>Schedule details<\/h2>\n<p>The Rainbow Warriors open the season with back-to-back road games against Fresno State and Wyoming on October 24 and October 31. <abbr title=\"University of Hawaii\">糖心Vlog官方<\/abbr> comes back to <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai&#699;i<\/span> for its home opener against New Mexico on November 7 before heading to California to face San Diego State on November 14.<\/p>\n<p><abbr>糖心Vlog官方<\/abbr> returns to Aloha Stadium for back-to-back home games beginning with a rematch of the 2019 <abbr>MW<\/abbr> championship game against Boise State on November 21 and Nevada on November 28. The Rainbow Warriors\u2019 final road contest is December 5 at San Jose State before ending the regular season at home on December 12 versus <abbr title=\"University of Nevada Las Vegas\">UNLV<\/abbr>.<\/p>\n<p>Unlike past years, the <abbr>MW<\/abbr> championship game on December 19 will feature the top two teams with the highest conference winning percentage instead of the top teams from each division.<\/p>\n<p>The <abbr>MW<\/abbr> and its national television partners will begin a selection procedure that will include shifting several games to Thursdays and Fridays. An announcement on national television broadcasts will be made in the coming weeks.<\/p>\n<h2>COVID-19 testing protocols<\/h2>\n<p>The conference partnered with Quest Diagnostics to implement testing protocols across all member institutions. The agreement includes frequent testing with rapid results. The conference will require all football student-athletes, coaches, trainers and other individuals who are on the field for all games to undergo testing three times per week. Test results must be completed and recorded prior to each game.<\/p>\n<p>Football is the only <abbr>糖心Vlog官方<\/abbr> sport that participates in the <abbr>MW<\/abbr>. The remaining sports compete in the Big West Conference. No decision on a return to fall athletics for the Big West has been announced.<\/p>\n<h2>2020 football schedule<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>October 24 at Fresno State <\/li>\n<li>October 31 at Wyoming <\/li>\n<li>November 7 vs. New Mexico<\/li>\n<li>November 14 at San Diego State<\/li>\n<li>November 21 vs. Boise State<\/li>\n<li>November 28 vs. Nevada <\/li>\n<li>December 5 at San Jose State <\/li>\n<li>December 12 vs. <abbr>UNLV<\/abbr> <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/hawaiiathletics.com\/news\/2020\/10\/1\/football-schedule-announced-season-begins-with-two-road-games.aspx\">For more, visit the <abbr>糖心Vlog官方<\/abbr> M\u0101noa Athletics website<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The schedule features four home games and four on the road.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1362],"tags":[58,1411,1418,83,714,9,550],"class_list":["post-128084","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-athletics","tag-athletics","tag-covid-19","tag-covid-19-announcement","tag-football","tag-student-athlete","tag-uh-manoa","tag-manoa-athletics","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128084","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=128084"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128084\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":128093,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128084\/revisions\/128093"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=128084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=128084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}