The University of Hawaii football team will make a major change in its bid to end a seven-game losing streak.
Jeremy Higgins will be the Warriors' starting quarterback for today's road game against Air Force, the Honolulu Star-Advertiser reported Thursday.
Higgins replaced Sean Schroeder in the third quarter of Saturday's loss to Boise State, and went 11-for-17 passing for 154 yards with an interception and no touchdowns.
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Hawaii’s Jeremy Higgins completed 11 of 17 passes for 154 yards with an interception and no touchdowns on Saturday against Boise State.
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Hawaii (1-8, 0-6 Mountain West Conference) is averaging 295.2 yards of offense per game, ahead of just three teams in the Bowl Subdivision. Air Force (5-5, 4-2) is gaining 457.6 yards per game.
The Warriors and Falcons are former Western Athletic Conference rivals, but have not met since a 52-30 victory for UH at Aloha Stadium in 2001. Hawaii coach Norm Chow, however, faced Air Force for decades while an assistant coach at Brigham Young.
"I coached against those guys for 20 years," Chow said Monday in a news conference posted on the UH athletics website. "I played against them actually, as well. They're tough guys. Obviously they are tough guys because they've got to represent our country when they graduate. So, we have to prepare offensively to stay on the field. We can't be getting those three and outs and expect our defense to hold up all afternoon long."
Fact Box
College Football on TV
Today
3 p.m.-Florida International at Florida Atlantic, ESPNU
4 p.m.-Hawaii at Air Force, ESPN2
Saturday
7 a.m.-W. Carolina at Alabama, KFVE
7 a.m.-Iowa at Michigan, ESPN
7 a.m.-Northwestern at Michigan St., ESPN2
7 a.m.-Florida St. at Maryland, ESPNU
7 a.m.-C. Florida at Tulsa, FSW
7 a.m.-Yale at Harvard, NBCSN
7 a.m.-Indiana at Penn St., BTN
7 a.m.-Temple at Army, CBSSN
7 a.m.-Tennessee Tech at Austin Peay,
FCSA
7 a.m.-C. Florida at Tulsa, FCSC
8 a.m.-Lehigh at Lafayette, FCS
8:30 a.m.-Washington at Colorado, FX
9 a.m.-Bethune-Cookman vs. Florida A&M, ESPNCL
10 a.m.-Southern Cal at UCLA, FOX
10 a.m.-S. Florida at Miami, FSWP
10 a.m.-Washington St. at Arizona St., PAC12
10:30 a.m.-Ohio St. at Wisconsin, ABC
10:30 a.m.-Mississippi at LSU, CBS
10:30 a.m.-Wake Forest at Notre Dame, NBC
10:30 a.m.-N.C. State at Clemson , ESPN2
10:30 a.m.-Duke at Georgia Tech, ESPNU
10:30 a.m.-Colorado St. at Boise St.,
NBCSN
10:30 a.m.-Minnesota at Nebraska, BTN
10:30 a.m.-Texas St. at Navy, CBSSN
10:30 a.m.-Texas Tech at Oklahoma St., FSW/FCSC
10:30 a.m.-Bethel at Georgetown College, FCSA
11 a.m.-Wyoming at UNLV, TWCSN
Noon-Colorado St. at Boise St., NBCSN
1 p.m.-Cal Poly-San Luis Obispo at N. Arizona, FCS
2 p.m.-Oklahoma at West Virginia, FOX
2 p.m.-Tennessee at Vanderbilt, ESPN2
2 p.m.-Syracuse at Missouri, ESPNU
2 p.m.-Iowa St. at Kansas, FSW/FCSA
2 p.m.-Old Dominion at James Madison, NBCSN
3 p.m.-Stanford at Oregon, ABC
3 p.m.-Kansas St. at Baylor, ESPN
3 p.m.-UTEP at Southern Miss, CBSSN
5 p.m.-BYU at San Jose St., ESPN2
5 p.m.-Arizona at Utah, ESPNU
5:30 p.m.-California at Oregon St., PAC12
Chow said Will Gregory will not play for UH today. The running back was ejected from the game against Boise State for throwing a punch at an opposing player.
