Owili Kaha.

It means Roll Tide in Hawaiian.

Listen closely enough, and you might be able to hear it inside Levi’s Stadium on Monday during the College Football Playoff national championship game. Actually, the way tickets are apparently selling to the game, you might not have any trouble hearing it all.

You know how everyone has been making a big deal the last few days about the inconvenience of this national championship game for fans of Alabama and Clemson? Heard the narrative that local interest in the Bay Area is non-existent? Yeah, those things aren’t entirely true.

People are buying tickets, and many of them are related to Alabama quarterback Tua Tagovailoa.

For fans of Alabama’s starting quarterback on the West Coast and beyond — and by beyond that means pretty much the entire state of Hawaii — this game in Northern California represents a unique opportunity. Family, friends and other fans can actually watch Tagovailoa in person for perhaps the only time in his collegiate career.

They’re taking full advantage of that opportunity.

At last count, the number of Tua’s extended family attending the game was at 405.

You read that correctly: Four-hundred and five people, according to one member of the family helping to organize travel and logistics. And the number is expected to grow. Many of those relatives live in the Bay Area, but flights full of Tua fans are coming from Hawaii as well. Many others are flying or driving in from Utah, Colorado, Seattle and other points throughout the West.

Home-feel advantage: Alabama.

“Just physically us being there is the biggest thing, the show of support,” said Derek Faavi, one of Tua’s uncles, who is also a football coach in Colorado at Adams State. “I’m really excited to see all of our family. It’s going to feel like a little family reunion."

Little?

“For us it’s a little one,” Faavi said.

Tua has an enormous family. Father Galu is the oldest of nine siblings. Mom Diane is the oldest of 10. Many of their siblings have large families as well. Most of them are going to the game. Consider all that support for Tagovailoa to be Alabama’s secret weapon in a game where every edge physically, emotionally or spiritually could make the difference between winning and losing.

“We have family all throughout the West Coast, so it’s great,” Faavi said. “We’re so thankful that it’s close to us.”

And then there are the “cousins” to consider. They might be showing up to the national championship game as well. In case you haven’t heard, everyone in Hawaii is now Tua’s cousin.

That’s the running joke in Ewa Beach, which is Tua’s tiny hometown on Oahu. When the lefty quarterback hit receiver DeVonta Smith for the game-winning touchdown pass in last season’s national championship, Tua’s family grew exponentially overnight. After about a week, everyone was joking that they were related to Alabama’s instantly famous quarterback.

The “family” has grown since then, according to longtime residents of Hawaii.

Former Alabama kicker Peter Kim, who was the first Hawaiian to play for Alabama, says “Tua’s Cousin” stickers on the backs of pick-up trucks and other vehicles around Oahu are now common sights.

“And I see a lot of the Alabama logos, which I never saw before,” said Kim, who kicked for Paul Bryant at the end of the legendary coach’s career.

Kim, of course, is attending the championship game with friends and former players. There are many others flying from Hawaii to San Jose as well. The direct flight from Honolulu to San Jose only takes five hours and 15 minutes — that’s nothing for Hawaiians who are used to traveling — and plane tickets have been advertised online for as low as $450.

With ticket prices to the game plummeting on the secondary market, this national championship is a relative steal for Alabama fans in Hawaii compared to those in Alabama.

For Tua’s extended family in the Bay Area, this game couldn’t be any more convenient. Don’t think there’s any interest in this game in San Francisco, Oakland or San Jose? Don’t believe the hype, they say. Many on Tua’s mom’s side of the family call the Bay Area home.

“We’re just excited to be a part of what God is doing,” said Vali Vaovosa, one of Tua’s aunts from Hawaii who will be at the game. “It has been an exciting journey, but more so a blessed journey.”

There are other Alabama fans from Hawaii taking advantage of the West Coast game as well. Hawaii’s Alabama fan club has been kicking around for a few years, but attendance to watch parties at the Kapolei Embassy Suites Manamana Bar & Sprigs Grill has spiked this season.

David Wright is the first president of the University of Alabama Honolulu Alumni Chapter, and, in an email, he wanted to “emphasize we are an official Alumni Chapter,” although all “Hawaii Bama fans” are welcome to events.

Wright is originally from Sand Mountain, Ala., but he now lives in Oahu and teaches U.S. history at Kapolei High School. Coincidentally, Kapolei is the high school that Tua’s younger brother, Taulia, attended before transferring to Thompson High School in Alabaster for his junior and senior seasons.

“Everyone is just so very proud,” Wright said. “What Tua has done, we just burst with pride.”

That energy will be pulsing through Levi’s Stadium, and Alabama’s quarterback will feel it the moment he steps onto the field.

Joseph Goodman is a columnist for the Alabama Media Group. He’s on Twitter @JoeGoodmanJr.