Aztecs football to play home-and-home series with Hawaii in 2028, ’29

San Diego State is adding a home-and-home series with Hawaii for the 2028-29 football seasons, a school source confirmed.

The teams have played on and off over the past five decades, first in the Western Athletic Conference and, since 2012, in the Mountain West. SDSU travels to Hawaii for a Nov. 8 game, marking the final time the schools meet as conference opponents.

SDSU is among five Mountain West schools moving to the reformed Pac-12 next year, so the 2028 and 2029 matchups will be nonconference games. The schools will play at Snapdragon Stadium on Sept. 23, 2028, and in Hawaii on Sept. 22, 2029, according to fbschedules.com.

The site for the game in Honolulu is tentatively at New Aloha Stadium, which is scheduled to open in 2028. If the stadium is not ready, the game would be played on campus at Clarence T. C. Ching Athletics Complex, where the Rainbow Warriors have played since 2021 after the original Aloha Stadium was condemned.

SDSU is 11-2 against Hawaii since the Rainbow Warriors joined the Mountain West. That includes a 27-24 victory last season at Snapdragon. The Aztecs lead the overall series 26-11-2.

The nonconference home-and-home series with Hawaii replaces a previously scheduled home-and-home against Louisiana Tech. SDSU currently has a total of 20 nonconference games scheduled over the next decade.

The Aztecs still need to add two games to their 2026 football schedule. They have nonconference games scheduled at home against Portland State (Sept. 5) and on the road against UCLA (Sept. 12) and Toledo (Sept. 26). The new Pac-12 includes eight football-playing schools, meaning SDSU will have conference games with Boise State, Colorado State, Fresno State, Oregon State, Texas State, Utah State and Washington State.

SDSU future schedules

2026: vs. Portland State (Sept. 5), at UCLA (Sept. 12), at Toledo (Sept. 26)

2027: at Eastern Michigan (Sept. 3), vs. Missouri (Sept. 11), at Oklahoma (Sept. 18)

2028: at Missouri (Sept. 2), vs. Arizona State (Sept. 9), vs. Hawaii (Sept. 23)

2029: vs. Oklahoma (Sept. 1), at Arizona State (Sept. 15), at Hawaii (Sept. 22)

2030: vs. Central Michigan (Sept. 21)

2031: at Oklahoma (Sept. 6), vs. UCLA (Sept. 13), vs. Northern Illinois (Sept. 20)

2033: vs. Missouri (Sept. 10), at Louisiana Tech (Sept. 24)

2034: at Missouri (Sept. 9), vs. Louisiana Tech (Sept. 23)