HONOLULU (AP) -- Hawaii airs it out like no other team in the nation. The road Warriors will spend nearly 51 hours in flight for their five away games this season.
Hawaii and the Colt Brennan Air Show departed Wednesday for its first and longest road trip of the season -- a 12-day journey during which it will face Louisiana Tech on Saturday, followed by UNLV a week later.

The 20th-ranked Warriors (1-0) are going to surprising lengths to adapt to the 5-hour time difference and to recover from the long travel.
For example, the team will stay on Hawaii time for the first couple days. That means practicing in the evening, eating dinner at 10 p.m. and holding team meetings at midnight.

"We're very isolated out here and I don't think people tend to appreciate that and don't realize how much we overcome," said Brennan, who passed for 416 yards and six touchdowns in the first half of a 63-6 opening win over Northern Colorado. "When people come and play us, they gain time. No one ever talks about this and says it straight: When we go and play teams, we lose time."
Coach June Jones chose to keep the team on the mainland for nearly two weeks to avoid traveling back and forth to the islands. The Warriors last stayed on the road for two weeks in 2003 when they faced Southern California and UNLV. They lost both games.

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