{"id":220512,"date":"2025-08-19T16:09:12","date_gmt":"2025-08-20T02:09:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=220512"},"modified":"2025-08-19T16:09:12","modified_gmt":"2025-08-20T02:09:12","slug":"warrior-football-kick-off-against-stanford","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2025\/08\/19\/warrior-football-kick-off-against-stanford\/","title":{"rendered":"Rainbow Warrior football to kick-off season against Stanford"},"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\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/manoa-football-season-opener.jpg\" alt=\"football players running onto field\" width=\"676\" height=\"381\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-220505\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/manoa-football-season-opener.jpg 676w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/manoa-football-season-opener-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/manoa-football-season-opener-130x73.jpg 130w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 676px) 100vw, 676px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai&#699;i<\/span> at M\u0101noa <a href=\"https:\/\/hawaiiathletics.com\/sports\/football\">football team<\/a> opens the 2025 season with a non-conference match-up against Stanford on Saturday, August 23 at the Clarence T.C. Ching Complex. Kickoff is 1:30 p.m., and the game will be televised nationally on <abbr>CBS<\/abbr>.<\/p>\n<p>The Rainbow Warriors will host the Cardinal for the second time in three seasons at Ching Complex and will look to avenge a 37-24 loss in 2023.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>To create a big-time home atmosphere, all fans are encouraged to join the team by wearing white for the game.<\/li>\n<li>The tailgating lot opens at 9:30 a.m. Fans are invited to join the Warrior Walk, where the team will be dropped off on campus and walk through the tailgating and <span aria-label=\"Paina\">Pa&#699;ina<\/span> area around 11 a.m. The pregame concert with Hawaii&#8217;s Finest will begin at noon with High Watah performing live.<\/li>\n<li>Cooling stations will be located inside of Ching Complex including one at the beach volleyball courts near the Diamond Head endzone. Bottled water will be offered at all concession stands.<\/li>\n<li>1,000 white ti leaf towels will be distributed to the student section as they enter the game. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Read more at <a href=\"https:\/\/hawaiiathletics.com\/news\/2025\/8\/18\/football-rainbow-warriors-open-2025-season-against-stanford-on-national-television.aspx\">Hawaiiathletics.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The season opener will be held on Saturday, August 23 at the Clarence T.C. Ching Complex.<\/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":[83,9,550],"class_list":["post-220512","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-athletics","tag-football","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\/220512","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=220512"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220512\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":220546,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220512\/revisions\/220546"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=220512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=220512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=220512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}