It wasn’t perfect. Far from it. But for a team that suited up six players on Friday who hadn’t competed in a regular-season Division I game, UNLV did more good than bad.
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There is another slogan. It’s not about running this time.
The grave had been dug and the coffin prepared, but Rich Ryerson held one final hope that might preserve life. There probably wasn’t enough money in the budget for a headstone.
Well, well. It seems as though Jeff Long might be smarter than we thought. He hadn’t come off as the sharpest tool in the first two weeks of the college football playoff committee releasing its rankings, but the committee chairman saved a bit of face Tuesday.
What the Rebels encountered Wednesday — a 100-65 victory against an outfit named Florida National before a heavily inflated announced gathering of 10,253 at the Thomas & Mack Center — was an exhibition is every sense of the word.
Thanks for checking in, Mississippi. The Rebels dropped from being in the College Football Playoff at No. 4 last week to way outside of it at No. 11 with a home loss to Auburn.
Well, if these are the sorts of postrace shenanigans a new NASCAR playoff format might regularly produce … bravo.
Bob Davie gave the Lobos an identity. Which begs a question: Does UNLV have one, and if so, what in the world is it besides losing?
UNLV coach Bobby Hauck had high hopes for this season after winning seven games and going to a bowl last year. But the team’s inconsistent play has spoiled his plans. “Doing things well one play and not the next is maddening for everybody,” he said.
Since falling to the Panthers six years ago, Bishop Gorman is 61-0 against teams from Nevada. The two teams routinely met in the playoffs, but they square off Thursday for the Southwest League title.