Saturday’s game between the Ole Miss Rebels and the No. 1 Alabama Crimson Tide will feature, for the first time in the history of the Southeastern Conference*, two opposing starting quarterbacks from Hawaii. Having come a long way from their shared childhood roots, and after having gone two very different routes to get to this point, Ole Miss’ Jordan Ta’amu and Alabama’s Tua Tagovailoa are now leading two of the conference’s best offenses in a “Hawaii vs. Hawaii” game that, according to Ta’amu, both players are very much looking forward to.
And while there have certainly always been some SEC football fans on the islands, Saturday’s contest could conceivably, for Hawaii, be the most viewed regular season SEC game in this conference’s history.