Hawai'i Rainbow Warrior Football Jet Lag & Frequent Flyer Miles: Honolulu to Sydney to Detroit.

With all of the off-season excitement and now new Michigan uniforms, I finally started to look more closely at the Michigan's first opponent, Hawai'i, who will come to play the Wolverines on Saturday, September 3 in Ann Arbor.

I'm sure over the next couple of weeks game previews will thoroughly explain why the Hawai'i Rainbow Warriors are just "gonna die" in that game given Michigan's superior team talent, strength, experience level, depth and coaching, etc. and Hawai'i's new team, sadistic new coach Nick Rolovich, etc.

I think the pathology report will read differently: death from jet lag and an overload of frequent flyer miles.

Hawai'i 2016 football schedule.

The week before on Thursday, August 25 the Hawai'i football team boards a flight of 5,000 miles to Sydney, Australia to play Cal in front of 83,500 at ANZ Stadium, one of the most beautiful sports venues in the world.  Kickoff is Friday afternoon, 26 August local time:

Then its back to Honolulu (5000 miles), and then Honolulu to Detroit (4500 miles) to play Michigan in Ann Arbor September 3.

Then back to Honolulu (4500 miles) to play Tennessee-Martin Skyhawks in their first home game.

Coach Nick Rolovich:

“I can’t wait for something bad to happen for this team,” Rolovich said in Las Vegas at the Mountain West Conference’s Media Days. “How we respond to that will tell us how much progress we’ve made in the offseason.

“Do we start complaining or do we stick together and say, hey, we’re going to get through this.”

I think they will have to be awake first.

Hats off to Hawai'i football though. They have balls. Love that state. Love their school and program. Love their retro football uniforms:

May they finish 11-1 this fall.