Matchups are set for a season of football farewells in the Mountain West Conference.
Hawaii will see four of the five outgoing MWC programs in the 2025 campaign — three of them at home — before Fresno State, Boise State, San Diego State, Utah State and Colorado State pack up for supposedly greener pastures in a rebuilt Pac-12 Conference in the summer of 2026.
UH will play FSU, SDSU, USU and Wyoming at home, and Air Force, CSU, San Jose State and UNLV on the road. Dates and times have not been announced.
The Mountain West is not including Washington State and Oregon State this year after talks for a second year of a scheduling alliance broke down and the Pac-12 subsequently poached five MWC schools. Thus, the MWC resumed with eight conference games for each team instead of seven.
UH's opponents are identical to the 2025 matchups laid out by the Mountain West three years in advance in 2022, with the exception of Air Force in for Boise State. Air Force was bumped from the UH schedule in 2024 to make way for Washington State.
All four of UH’s perpetual trophy games — Wyoming, Air Force, UNLV and San Jose State — are in play in 2025. It is only the second time that has happened. Only one, the Ninth Island Showdown trophy with UNLV, was contested in 2024.
UH will not face Boise State, New Mexico and Nevada in the 2025 regular season. Barring a meeting in the Mountain West championship game, UH’s longest-running annual series with any opponent will end; UH and Nevada have played for 25 straight years.
The Rainbow Warriors' former longest-running consecutive series against Fresno State was snapped at 31 games in 2023. After Nevada, UNLV is set to be UH’s new longest-running foe with a 17th straight meeting in 2025.
UH’s nonconference opponents in 2025 are Stanford Aug. 23; at Arizona Aug. 30; Sam Houston Sept. 6; and Portland State Sept. 13.
Brian McInnis covers the state’s sports scene for Spectrum News Hawaii. He can be reached at brian.mcinnis@charter.com.