Week 14 of the NFL regular season kicks off with the Oakland Raiders visiting AFC West opponent the Kansas City Chiefs tonight for Thursday Night Football.
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Houston will hire Alabama offensive coordinator Lane Kiffin to replace Tom Herman as the school’s football coach, USA Today reports.
Nevada has settled on Arizona State assistant coach Jay Norvell as its new head coach, according to ESPN.
The most intriguing pre-Christmas matchup is in the Las Vegas Bowl, which pits Houston against San Diego State on Dec. 17. The Cougars lost their coach. The Aztecs have running back Donnel Pumphrey.
The home team in the Seattle-Green Bay series has won four in a row. The Seahawks are favored by 2½ to 3 points at Lambeau Field on Sunday.
Utah State’s Anthony Calvillo torched Ball State with 286 passing yards and three touchdowns and was named MVP of the second ever Las Vegas Bowl in 1993.
Derek Carr is a hot quarterback for the Raiders, who are 3-point underdogs at Kansas City in a road-oriented AFC West rivalry.
Wyoming scored a touchdown with 57 seconds left to complete a comeback against UCLA in the 2004 Las Vegas Bowl. It was Wyoming’s first bowl victory in 38 years.
There aren’t many better opening scenes than a player (Donnel Pumphrey of San Diego State) returning home needing 108 rushing yards against the country’s No. 2 run defense to become the NCAA’s all-time leader.
The game is a 5:25 p.m. Thursday kickoff at Arrowhead Stadium in Kansas City, Missouri.
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Future NFL star Troy Polamalu posted a bowl-record 20 tackles in a losing effort against Utah in the Las Vegas Bowl on Christmas Day 2001.
Randall Cunningham, Silverado High School’s football coach and a Las Vegas pastor, is the leading passer and punter in UNLV history.
Week 14 of the NFL season starts with a bang Thursday and continues with fireworks on Sunday and Monday.
Heisman Trophy winner Rashaan Salaam was found dead Monday night in a Boulder park less than two miles from Folsom Field, where he carved his name into the University of Colorado record books as one of the greatest players in the program’s history.
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