SEATTLE — When it was all over except for the celebrating, University of Hawai'i football coach Greg McMackin took his quarterback, Greg Alexander, aside, put an arm around him and gestured into the night sky.

High atop Qwest Field on an auxiliary scoreboard were listed the Warriors' 489 yards passing and 626 yards total offense, telling numbers in a 38-20 demolition of Washington State.

"Look, look up there," McMackin said. "That's what you guys did."

For the 2-0 Warriors, who a week ago struggled to put together semblance of an offense against Central Arkansas, the sky is, again, the limit.

The Warriors' first road victory over a BCS conference opponent since 2003 was a double-barreled shotgun blast of, dare we say, June Jones-era proportions?

Hardly promising for the Cougs, who play Jones' current team, SMU, next, but highly encouraging for the Warriors who combined a sound game plan, inspired play calling by quarterbacks coach Nick Rolovich in his debut as triggerman, and ruthless execution by Alexander for bold surgical strikes that added up to the most yards since the 2006 Hawai'i Bowl blasting of Arizona State.

Alexander completed 26 of 36 passes for 453 yards and three touchdowns. Notable was that not until 4 minutes remained in the third quarter, by which time it was already 35-13, was the first pass shoveled, shuffled or shuttled by UH.

"Having him (Rolovich) on the sideline to talk about what we were seeing helped," Alexander said.

So, too, did having an offensive line that was tall to the task, receivers who blew past pursuers and a big-play defense that forced, with sometimes thunderous hits, seven turnovers.

"I thought we were always around the ball," WSU coach Paul Wulff said. "Our guys were pretty much where they kinda needed to be (but) they (the Warriors) made some plays."

That UH accomplished this despite four turnovers (all fumbles) made it more remarkable.

So, it was heartening that the Warriors still weren't satisfied, their appetite for pinball-like scoring hardly satiated. Said Alexander: "With all the turnovers (by WSU), we should have put up 70 (points)."

That can come another day. But the good news now is that it once again looms as a possibility.