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A final score flashed from Tuscaloosa, Ala., on Saturday night, and another unbeaten had fallen in college football, and that once-a-week question was being asked inside the Sam Boyd Stadium press box.
RENO — I have to believe the leading wide receiver in UNLV history was talking about what he had witnessed over the first 30 minutes of yet another football game against UNR that has become a laughable, one-sided series.
The funniest sight, and there were plenty given how awful UNLV’s football team was Saturday, might have been the two policemen sitting atop horses in the west end zone at game’s end, apparently guarding against anyone trying to tear down the goal post.
It’s not about talent. Wisconsin always was going to be a much better football team than UNLV on Thursday night. Bigger. Stronger. Faster. Better in every imaginable way.
This is a town you always see listed as one of the best places to live in America, where no building can be taller than the state capitol and near where Frank Lloyd Wright discovered his fondness for architecture.