The Hawaii football team does not have time for the pain.

Or to complain.

On Sunday, the Rainbow Warriors returned to Honolulu weary, achy, and losers of three in a row.

“We struggled against a great team,” head coach Nick Rolovich said of Saturday’s 50-20 road loss to Fresno State at Bulldog Stadium. The Bulldogs dominated all phases in a game that was halted for 29 minutes in the first quarter when a bank of stadium lights went dark.

The outage lengthened the game — it ended at 11:26 p.m. Pacific time — and delayed the Warriors’ postgame travel plans. The Warriors each had a tri-tip sandwich before boarding the buses for the three-hour drive to San Jose. They checked into a hotel, slept for about two hours, then went to Norman Y. Mineta San Jose International Airport for the five-hour, 40-minute flight to Honolulu.

“They wish they could snap their fingers and get back to bed in Hawaii,” Rolovich said. “They got up, got to the airport. They didn’t complain after getting their butts kicked. That’s pretty impressive to me.”

After reviewing videos of the game, Rolovich indicated there were patches of optimism. He said the receivers improved from the previous week’s performance, when they dropped five passes in a loss to Nevada. Rolovich said the receivers showed “discipline, detail, doing the little things right.”

Four running backs combined for 27 yards on 13 carries. But quarterback Cole McDonald gained 64 yards on 11 non-sack scrambles or keepers.

“I thought Cole did some good things in the run game,” Rolovich said. “He ran hard. He made some big throws. I thought the touchdown throw (covering 50 yards to JoJo Ward) was a big-time throw.”

Freshman Jeremy Moussa had a relatively impressive college debut. Moussa averaged 21.3 yards on his three completions. He connected on a 27-yard scoring pass to Devan Stubblefield in the fourth quarter.

“He had a nice command of the offense,” Rolovich said of Moussa. “He knew where to go with the ball. He missed a read, missed a throw. But I thought he had really good pocket presence getting through the progression, and he gave our guys a chance to catch the ball. … He took a couple shots downfield where we really weren’t open, but I’m OK with that. He’s out there, getting a chance to play on ESPN. ‘Go ahead and let ‘er rip, kid.’ ”

The Warriors also used all 32 defensive players who were on the travel roster.

“We played everybody we had,” Rolovich said.

Only four of the defenders are seniors. Another senior, leading tackler Jahlani Tavai, did not make the trip because of an apparent shoulder ailment. His availability is in doubt for Saturday’s game against Utah State.

“We’re on a three-game losing streak,” said Zeno Choi, a defensive end and co-captain. “It’s adversity. We have to fight through adversity. We cannot grumble. We have to stay together and play Hawaii football. … You can’t watch film on Monday and wake up on Tuesday and say, ‘oh, we lost to Fresno State.’ No. When the next week comes, it’s another game. Your mind needs to be cleared (of the Fresno loss). It needs to be where it should be.”