The most important position on the field remains unsettled, as juniors Kurt Palandech and Johnny Stanton are still listed as co-starters at quarterback on UNLV’s depth chart.
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Nine of UNLV’s 12 football games this season will be televised after ROOT SPORTS announced Thursday that the network will show two Rebels home games this year.
If San Diego State beats UNR at home on Saturday, the Aztecs will take a perfect Mountain West record into the conference championship game the following weekend. And almost certainly will have to play on the road.
Coaches like to say they will take an ugly victory over a pretty loss, but sometimes even a win can feel like a defeat.
Do you know that saying about being a symptom of something much worse? Yeah. That’s what 2-16 is. That’s what being outscored by an average of 39-18 in those football games is. That’s the reality facing Mountain West teams and all others existing within the insignificant and dismal reality of a non-Power 5 conference today.
Former UNLV football coach Bobby Hauck was named the special teams coordinator at San Diego State. He coached the Rebels the past five seasons, going 15-49.
A furious rally by quarterback Blake Decker couldn’t survive the magic of a touchdown pass with no time on the clock, and Hawaii defeated UNLV, 37-35, on Saturday night in Honolulu.
UNLV’s Blake Decker has shown he has the ability to be a quality quarterback, but too often was undone by mistakes. But he made the correct decisions in his most recent game, and now he hopes to carry that performance forward.
It’s the first year of the College Football Playoff, and the effects of the new system on the bowls remain to be seen. But the Las Vegas Bowl is in good shape to survive, officials say.
UNR quarterback Cody Fajardo recently tweeted the Fremont Cannon will head back to Reno after the Wolf Pack play at UNLV this season. His coach, Brian Polian, supported the tweet.
UNLV lost guard Cameron Jefferson and Ron Scoggins in the offseason, but the Rebels still should have one of the Mountain West’s top offensive lines.
It’s not as if the crystal stemware has shattered into a thousand pieces. But there is a small chip or two, flaws only discernible to those who watched firsthand Boise State’s rise to college football prominence.
Dance Dance Revolution is a music video game introduced in Japan 16 years ago, where players stand on a platform or stage and hit colored arrows with their feet to musical and visual cues.
It may not be a Quarterback U, but UNLV has churned out some players whose names became recognizable to fans around the country. Here are our top 10.
UNLV football fans should memorize the words to the Fresno State fight song and sing them loudly the next three weekends.
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