At each home football game, one of the University of Hawaii’s corporate partners is featured as the event sponsor, and the Wyoming game would seem to open some interesting possibilities.

In honor of Saturday’s game, which matches teams whose quarterbacks are among the nation’s leading sack victims, here’s a chance to, perhaps, add Sack ‘N Save, Foodland, Times or Safeway.

Among the 125 Football Bowl Subdivision teams, Wyoming is ranked No. 122 and UH 119, in having quarterbacks who remain upright.

So prevalent have the sacks been for them — Wyoming QBs have been bagged an average of 4.4 times per game and UH’s 3.8 — that the Las Vegas betting line should probably have an over/under on sack totals as well as points.

If you go by sacks per pass attempt, Wyoming’s Cody Kirkegaard is the second-most sacked quarterback in the FBS, based upon at least 125 passing attempts. (UCLA’s Brett Hundley is the leader at 5.9). Kirkegaard has been taken down 22 times, or once in every 6.2 pass attempts.

UH’s Ikaika Woolsey is eighth, having been sacked 17 times, or once every 10.1 pass attempts, on average. Those numbers, which suggest Woolsey has been too accommodating of a target for defenses, are one reason you figure head coach Norm Chow is looking to give backup Taylor Graham another shot.

At the current pace — and if he were to remain the starter while managing to stay in one piece — Woolsey would likely become the most sacked quarterback in UH history. Understandably, that’s not a category UH touts or even keeps an official count. 

History does tell us, however, Bryant Moniz and Colt Brennan went down 37 and 34 times, respectively, in 2010 and 2005. Of course, Moniz (555) and Brennan (515) authored a lot more passes than Woolsey figures to throw. 

Still, it would be saying something given the 30-sack pounding Dan Robinson endured in the chuck-and-duck 0-12 season of 1998. 

In a better system, following the arrival of June Jones, Robinson flourished, helping guide UH to a 9-4 finish, the biggest turnaround in NCAA history.  

Five games into the 2014 season, it is clear Woolsey and the offense that he has been slotted into have yet to find anything approaching a mesh.

With a 45 percent pass-completion percentage, Woolsey might as well have a bull’s-eye, something evident in the season-high seven sacks in last week’s 28-14 loss at Rice.

The easiest finger to point when it comes to sacks is one directed at the offensive line, even if it isn’t always the correct one. In fact, of seven sacks inflicted by Rice, the majority were not on the backs of the offensive line.

The quarterback’s ability to read coverages, get off quick strikes and move in the pocket has a lot to do with it. As does the play of the receivers and the defensive coverage.  

While time is running out for UH to find a solution, the sack problem is presenting some marketing opportunities.

Reach Ferd Lewis at flewis@staradvertiser.com or 529-4820.