Perhaps the idea is like a third-and-1 at this point, but the University of Hawaii is trying to make it a first down.
While visiting on an Asian tour for the UH men's basketball team, the school's athletic director, Jim Donovan, said he is seeking a realistic chance for the school's football team to play a regular-season opening game in Japan.
If that happens, it would be the first time that an NCAA regular-season football game has been played in the country in more than two decades. An NCAA game was played annually in Tokyo between 1977 and 1993.
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