MADISON, Wis. >> In the still of the Friday afternoon light, the University of Hawaii football team walked into an empty Camp Randall Stadium for a sneak preview of today’s game.

Built in 1917, it is the fourth-oldest stadium for college football. In the sunlight, Camp Randall appears at ease.

But for this evening’s game between 22nd-ranked Wisconsin and Hawaii, the stadium will transform into a House of Pain. Between the third and fourth quarters, thousands of red-clad Badger students will jump along to their anthem, House of Pain’s "Jump Around."

On football Saturdays, to be sure, Wisconsin becomes a red state.

"It should be fun," UH nose tackle Kory Rasmussen said. "I’m excited."

There is tradition on the grounds used to train Wisconsin troops during the Civil War. There is a wall of NFL helmets with plaques listing the names of former Badgers who made it to football’s next level. There also are engraved listings for every walk-on who earned a Wisconsin football letter. There is a bronze statue bearing the likeness of Barry Alvarez, Wisconsin’s athletic director and former head football coach. A tradition, initiated in 2003, is the Badgers’ 34-game home winning streak against nonconference opponents.

Two weeks earlier, the Rainbow Warriors played a road game against top-ranked Ohio State. UH coach Norm Chow said his players embrace a return to the Midwest to face another Top 25 team in an SRO environment.

"Why not?" Chow said. "You play college football, you should play the best you can play. It doesn’t get any better. I’ve coached in that stadium a couple of times and it’s big-time college football."

UH defensive coordinator Tom Mason was a linebackers coach when Fresno State won in Camp Randall in 2001. The next year, the Badgers missed the winning field goal, but received another chance — from 5 yards closer — because the Bulldogs were offsides. On the re-boot, Mason recalled, with a shrug, "they made it."

For the Warriors, the season’s theme is each week they play a "faceless opponent."

"Our guys like to play football," Chow said. "We don’t care where we play, who we play, what time we play. We’re going to play the best we can."

Quarterback Max Wittek, who began his college career at USC and played home games in the L.A. Coliseum, said the Warriors’ focus is on the field and not the stands.

"We’ve been there before," Wittek said of Ohio State’s large crowd. "We just played in front of 104,000 the other week. With 80,000, I mean, it’s not different. Loud is loud."

The Warriors, whose practices include loud music blaring from a speaker, have worked on silent counts.

"It’s a matter of executing," Wittek said. "Our plays are there. … (The Badgers) give us some exotic look. But at the end of the day, you have to hit your gap. It’ll look different, but at the end of the day, they’ll go to the same spots. You have to have your responsibilities intact. We’re ready for it."

Running back Diocemy Saint Juste, who missed the first three games because of a hamstring injury, and Quinton Pedroza, who was held out of last week’s game to rest a sore leg, traveled to Wisconsin and are expected to play.

"It’s good to have the guys back," Wittek said.

The Badgers, meanwhile, again will be without running back Corey Clement, who rushed for 949 yards and averaged 6.5 yards as a sophomore in 2014. Clement is set to undergo surgery for a sports hernia.

But the Badgers are expected to stick with their power running game behind an offensive line whose average blocker is 6 feet 5 and 314 pounds. Dare Ogunbowale will make his third consecutive start. Taiwan Deal, who has gained a first down on a third of his rushes, will play extensively. The Badgers also moved Alex Ingold from linebacker to running back two weeks ago. And Tanner McEvoy, the starting free safety, is the wildcat. He played 20 offensive snaps against Troy last week.

"We’re a hard-working group of guys who aren’t going to make mental mistakes," McEvoy said. "That’s what Wisconsin football has been like for the past so many years. That’s the kind of football we like to play — hard-nosed."

Mason, who has been crafting a counter strategy, said: "It’s going to be real football. They’re going to run the ball down at us until we stop it. They’ll keep running it and play-action pass it. I look forward to see if we can play that kind of ball."

As SMU’s defensive coordinator the previous seven years, Mason used speed and blitzes off fire-zone schemes to attack pound-it teams such as Central Florida and Pittsburgh.

"We have to move and we have to do things to take advantage of our quickness over their size," Mason said. "That’s the way it’s going to be fun. It’s going to be a chess match. We’re going to do our stuff and see what happens."