The Hawaii football team trails San Diego State 27-24

Marquez Cooper rushed for 109 yards and two touchdowns and scored the game-winning touchdown on a 2-yard run with 7:07 left, giving San Diego State a 27-24 victory over Hawaii today in the Mountain West Conference opener for both teams Snapdragon Stadium in San Diego, California.

Hawaii (2-3, 0-1), which fell to 0-4 in weeks under third-year head coach Timmy Chang, took first with a 23-yard touchdown pass with 9:44 left in the fourth quarter Lead Brayden Schager to Nick Cenacle.

The Aztecs (2-3, 1-0) ended a three-game losing streak with an eight-play, 87-yard scoring drive to retake the lead.

UH converted on fourth-and-18 when Schager Pofele found Ashlock for 19 yards to move the ball into SDSU territory on its next drive.

Schager hit Ashlock for 15 yards on third-and-17 and set up a fourth-and-2 at the SDSU 31 with less than two minutes left.

Hawaii had two timeouts and was within range of Kansei Matsuzawa, but opted instead.

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There was a quick pass just past the marker that was caught by Ashlock, but it fumbled into the hands of Cenacle, who was tackled well before the first down marker.

UH forced an SDSU punt with 12 seconds left but didn’t have enough time to do anything about it.

Schager finished the game 26-for-44 for 272 yards and three touchdowns and was intercepted once.

Ashlock, Cenacle and Tylan Hines caught a touchdown pass for Hawaii, which has won just one road game in three years under Chang.

Hawaii returns home to host nationally ranked Boise State on Oct. 12 at 5 p.m

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