It is fitting that Hawaii’s football game at Aloha Stadium tonight against San Diego State is homecoming.

This is the Rainbow Warriors’ first home game in 21 days following consecutive road trips against Wisconsin and Boise State. After that, the Warriors will be on the road the next two weekends and won’t return to Aloha Stadium for another 21 days.

The Warriors, who are 2-3, are unbeaten at home but winless — and scoreless — on the road.

"I don’t know who, in this country, would be any good if they played Ohio State, Wisconsin and Boise State (after) anywhere from five hours on the plane to eight hours on the plane both ways," SDSU coach Rocky Long said. "That’s a tough deal."

In Long’s view, the Warriors have polar personalities.

"I see them as two different teams — how they perform on the road and how they perform at home, and obviously, we’re playing them at home," Long said.

Against Colorado and UC Davis at home, the Warriors are averaging 37.5 points and 383.5 yards, including 6.04 per play. On the road, they are averaging 196.7 yards and 3.26 yards per play. At home, quarterback Max Wittek’s pass-efficiency rating is 142.45 on 58.1 percent accuracy. On the road, Wittek has a 73.56 rating on 36.3 percent accuracy.

"If you watch the two games they played at home, the quarterbacks had no problems whatsoever," Long said, adding with UH’s road schedule "the normal comparison between comparative scores and statistics, they’re out the window. They don’t count."

UH coach Norm Chow said the Warriors shook off last week’s 55-0 loss to Boise State in the Mountain West Conference opener.

"You have to," Chow said. "Every week is a new week. We’re not going to sit around and brood about anything. We got beat. Whether we got beat 1-0 or 50-0, we got beat. It’s one loss. We’re ready to go. We’ve got resilient young people that I’m proud of."

Offensive coordinator Don Bailey said the Warriors did not need to go back to the proverbial drawing board.

"The scheme’s fine," Bailey said. "We’ve got to make plays. That’s the bottom line. … They have to be able to perform on Saturday. That’s the biggest performance every week. You have to attack that with more enthusiasm known to man. You’ve got to make it happen on Saturday."

When Long was New Mexico’s head coach, the Lobos would travel to Los Angeles, then arrive in Honolulu the morning of a night game. "The league doesn’t let you do that anymore," Long said, referring to the 24-hour residency rule. "Otherwise, we’d leave Saturday morning, get there in time to eat pre-game meal, and go play the game."

Long added: "Since you can’t fly in there the day of the game, you’re there early enough to feel the atmosphere and the culture of Hawaii, which is really, really good if you’re on vacation. … I don’t know about you, but I know how I am, and I know how the players are. ‘If everybody else is on vacation, why am I not on vacation?’ It doesn’t lend itself to mental preparation to play. There are a lot of disadvantages to playing over there. But (the Warriors) fight (the travel) six times a year, and you fight it once every two years."