The Sheraton Hawai'i Bowl will send a three-man delegation to the University of Hawai'i's football game at Utah State on Saturday, officials said.

The bowl is expected to tender a bid to the Dec. 24 game if the Warriors beat the Aggies.

UH is 6-2 (4-1 in the Western Athletic Conference) and will become bowl eligible with its seventh overall victory in the 13-game regular season.

Under an agreement between the bowl and the WAC, UH plays in the Sheraton Hawai'i Bowl as the WAC representative as long as it is bowl eligible.

Last year, for the first time in its four-year run, UH did not appear in the game because, at 5-7, it was not bowl eligible.

Hawai'i Bowl executive director Jim Donovan, bowl operations director David Matlin and Sheraton representative David Uchiyama are scheduled to attend the game.

Hawai'i Bowl officials will then attend the Pac-10 meetings Nov. 8 in Los Angeles. This year, for the first time in the Hawai'i Bowl's five-year history, the WAC representative is scheduled to play a Pac-10 team. Tentatively, the Pac-10 is scheduled to send its sixth choice to Hawai'i. The Pac-10 also has tie-ins with the Bowl Championship Series, Holiday, Sun, Las Vegas and Emerald bowls.

Since UH closes its regular season with a Dec. 2 game against Oregon State, a Pac-10 spokesman said it is unlikely the Beavers would end up in the Hawai'i Bowl, even if eligible.

ESPN is expected to announce today that it will pick up the UH-Oregon State game on one of its networks. A WAC official said the network has been "leaning to Oregon State" and he would be "shocked" if ESPN chose UH's Nov. 25 game against Purdue instead. ESPN is supposed to decide between the two by tomorrow.

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