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Week 2 G5 Notes

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Boston Rebel 2 said:
Same here plus the win means less now.
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It won't mean less. It would still accomplish 2 things... Another road win at a P4 school that's likely to still be in competition for Big 12 title at end of year...and another road win against the Big 12 when the Big 12 is looking at where they should be expanding to... sure, it wont count as a Top 25 win, but I'd be shocked if winning on the road at another Big 12 school wouldn't get us there...
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Week 2 G5 Notes

Boston Rebel 2
Meister_Rebel said:
I watched most of the SDSU OSU game. SDSU has a new QB that is not good. They picked up a stud running back from the Portal and they were driving down to the 3 yard line when the QB instead of handing the ball to the RB he decides he is going to run in for the score himself. He fumbled it of course and OSU recovered and drove the ball 98 yards for a TD. SMH.

San Jose and us are the only undefeated teams left in the MWC. I like their QB. A transfer from Wazzu. He has a good arm and a good receiver in Nash. The QB although not perfect will get better with more games. Their defense against AF was good.

Wazzu looks good. Too bad we don't play them.

Go Rebels!
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I saw a lot of that too that SDSU QB straight up sucks he had guys wide open deep that he overthrew has no accuracy.
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Week 2 G5 Notes

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I watched most of the SDSU OSU game. SDSU has a new QB that is not good. They picked up a stud running back from the Portal and they were driving down to the 3 yard line when the QB instead of handing the ball to the RB he decides he is going to run in for the score himself. He fumbled it of course and OSU recovered and drove the ball 98 yards for a TD. SMH.

San Jose and us are the only undefeated teams left in the MWC. I like their QB. A transfer from Wazzu. He has a good arm and a good receiver in Nash. The QB although not perfect will get better with more games. Their defense against AF was good.

Wazzu looks good. Too bad we don't play them.

Go Rebels!
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Houston

Boston Rebel 2
bcvegaspt2 said:
I watched for a minute or two and saw a stat that the HC for Oklahoma was in his third season. Is this a hotseat season for him when he starts racking up some L's?

In my mind, if they do, there's an outside chance of them going after Odom if we have a 10-win season because that's his neck of the woods, so to speak. The side of me that doesn't think that this makes sense imagines that they will go after a more well established, seasoned HC from a P5.
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If he has one loss and takes us to the playoffs I imagine OU and other schools will have his name prevalent.
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2025 Football Opponents

dcut03
I didn't know we played at Sam Houston next season. That is awesome. I can easily drive there, and even have close family friends that live in Huntsville, TX.

Weaker noncon slate, that is for sure. But as you said, we will be losing a lot! I see some potential in our depth pieces, and I think we could be a hot team in the transfer market, though we would need the funds to completely capitalize.

Then there is the fact that we will likely be with a new OC. So that makes this interesting.
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Week 2 G5 Notes

lvrebalum2012
reagan21 said:
Lots of good points. Not much I can add to this.

Syracuse is good. That’s going to be a tough one to pull off, even at home. Much tougher game than Kansas.
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Eh, not sure about that. Small sample size for both teams. KU still has weapons, are playing at home, and will be coming off a very disappointing loss. They will be very focused to ensure their season doesn’t go completely off the rails.

Syracuse plays all home games until they come here, so they won’t be tested on the road at all. Their defense is very suspect. McCord is a super capable passer, which will be tough for us. But I’m not sold on our home game against them being tougher than the spot we’re about to be in with KU.
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2025 Football Opponents

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I imagine these could change if need arose. Like we saw Army drop from the schedule last minute as they joined the American. But, 2025 UNLV football opponents (https://fbschedules.com/2025-unlv-football-schedule/)

  • at Sam Houston State
    • 2024 is Bearkats 3rd year in FBS jumping from WAC (they were previously Southland). KC Keeler is their head coach. He has 2 FCS national title, one with Delaware in 2003, then another with Sam Houston in the COVID FCS spring 2021 season (2020 fall delayed until spring 2021). SHSU was 3-9 in 2023 with home wins vs Middle Tennessee and Kennesaw State, and a lone road win at LA Tech. Only one real blowout, which was 38-7 at Houston. Surprised Rice in week 1 of 2024 season 34-14 on the road, then lost 45-14 at UCF.
  • vs UCLA
    • I have no faith in DeShaun Foster as a head coach. But it's UCLA. It's PacBig-12Ten. They will have the talent. Eric Bieniemy is their OC, which I learned while writing this post up. They struggled at Hawaii and honestly should have lost. 2025 will be year 2 of the DF/EB era, and year 2 of UCLA getting wrecked by Big Ten teams. If 2024 goes well, and if we don't lose absolutely everything (HC, OC, DC could all reasonably be gone; we will lose all 3 upper classmen QBs, at least 4 OL, basically the entire defensive secondary, Woodard, RW3, JDJ, several DL contributors and starters. Job will require a lot of transfers in and growth from younger players), it could be a great environment for a UNLV FB home game.
  • vs Idaho State
    • Cody Hawkins (Dan's son) is the head coach, 2024 is his 2nd year as head coach. They were 3-8 in 2023 with home wins against bad Northern Colorado and ranked Eastern Washington, road win at Portland State. They were walloped by Utah State, Sac State, and Idaho. But have heard good things around their program, particularly with strength and conditioning and administrative support. 2024 so far: 38-15 loss at Oregon State, 50-10 win against Western Oregon.
  • at Miami (OH)
    • 2025 will be Chuck Martin's 12th year at Miami assuming he's still there. He's 56-63 overall as their head coach and were 11-3 in 2023. Losses were at Miami 38-3, vs Toledo 21-17, and the bowl game vs App State 13-9 in Orlando. Oxford, Ohio is out in the boonies it appears, west of Dayton and Cincinnati. Travel could suck for that game; 4 hour flight and then a bus trip (I assume they won't fly into Oxford, but I have no idea). This season, Miami has only played at Northwestern, who beat the Redhawks 13-6.

We know that the self-imposed deadline for MWC and Pac-2 scheduling agreement has passed. But in no way at all was that binding. Games could get scheduled individually with teams rather than conference, so that could change anyway. Other than those types of changes, we know that UNLV will play Hawaii and Reno. I can't find an official graphic or article, but FBSchedules has UNLV conference slate showing road games at CSU, SDSU, UNR, and USU, home games vs AFA, BSU, UNM, and Hawaii. Don't think that's right - we have BSU at home this year.

A ton can and will change about our team going into 2025, so hard to know what it will look like. Looking forward to this young 2024 season and seeing what 2025 really looks like as it approaches.
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Boise versus Oregon

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Is Boise's offense strong or is it Jeanty dependent? I mean, no disrespect to him as a bell cow RB hes everything you want in a RB, but you take away the 76 yard TD run and their offense was bad... I get he's already got 3 70 yard TD runs, and 9 TDs overall, but if you contain him and don't let him break off 70 yard runs, is Madsen going to beat you?
Not to say Oregon having 2 kicks returned for TDs didn't save them, but they did a pretty good job containing the run game till his long run in the 4th
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Week 2 G5 Notes

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I was going to post a "G5 Games to Watch" thread yesterday and ran out of time before games started. But it turned into a heck of a day. These are stream of consciousness thoughts that were not necessarily in game order or fully watched games.

  • UNLV did what was expected. Potential loss of Marsel McDuffie is a problem. (Knee?)
  • Boise State was back and forth with Oregon all game, losing on a walk off field goal. Two special teams TD for Oregon were the clear difference here. BSU lane discipline, angles, tackling on SPTMS were... not good. Also, they have a top 3 RB in the nation and Koetter went in the air with 2 timeouts and 3.5+ minutes to play. 3 n out and Oregon never gave them the ball back. BSU had every opportunity to win this game.
  • Liberty absolutely stole one from Sanchez and NMSU. NMSU lead wire to wire except the last 65 seconds, the most important 65 seconds. NMSU lead 17-9 in the 4th quarter. A QB hit with no ball protection lead to a defensive TD for Liberty (17-15 NMSU). NMSU TD to put the lead to 9. Liberty rattles off 2 TD in the final 5:12. In their last two drives, NMSU had 9 plays for 14 yards in under 3 minutes. A complete implosion at the end.
  • We all saw Northern Illinois's game-winning FG at Notre Dame. Of course, nationally this will probably get viewed as ND playing an awful game and NIU getting lucky. Notre Dame is a chosen few, they can't actually be overrated. I didn't watch any of that game except the field goal heard 'round the Bend. NIU outgained ND by over 100 and had a better 3rd down conversion rate. ND 2 interceptions thrown was the difference here.
  • Early 4th quarter, South Florida trailed at Alabama by 21-16. Bama finished with 3 straight TDs to win 42-16.
  • Tulane lead K-State most of the game. K-State offensive TD early 4th quarter to tie it up at 27, then a defensive TD to go up 34-27. Tulane had a TD taken off for OPI, and finished the game throwing a pick in the end zone; they got as far as the 2 yard line going in.
  • I-35 Rivalry - Texas State steamrolled UTSA in San Marcos(?). Texas State had some G5 hype this season. They play ASU next week. I know it's just ASU, but that very well could be the only L on their schedule. Pay attention to Texas State as a possible "if they don't stumble, they get the spot" team.
  • There are a few remaining undefeateds not named in the American. I don't expect 'em to remain undefeated long.
  • Other than NMSU frustrations, C-USA went as expected. Except UTEP losing to Southern Utah. SUU earned the United Athletic Conference (UAC; it's the conference resulting the merged football programs from the WAC and ASUN, since neither had enough remaining teams to be eligible for a playoff spot without merging) it's first ever FBS win. Obviously not the first for SUU, we know about 12-13 years ago they beat UNLV.
  • Bowling Green made a game of it with Penn State. BGSU lead 24-20 at half, but was outscored 14-3 in the second half.
  • FCS St. Francis beat Kent State in the MAC.
  • USU looks bad. Sure, they played USC. But they look bad. Also, Maiava played in the end of 3rd quarter and into 4th quarter for USC. Had a couple nice throws, good numbers for limited action. His TD run was pretty solid. Escaped some pressure, evaded a tackle or two, visible intentional ball protection, and found a huge mid-field lane.
  • Idaho put Wyoming. The difference between Big Sky Idaho, MWC Wyoming, MWC BSU, and Big 10 Oregon is weird, and small. Jason Eck is a heckuva coach for Idaho. He's a Wisconsin alum, so getting to his alma mater might be a while. Idaho has made the FCS playoffs in both of his seasons as Vandals head man. Expect him to be a G5 head coach in the next couple seasons. Basically whenever he wants to.
  • SJSU wins at Air Force 17-7. The first 21 points of this game scored in the first quarter. 17 punts, 3 TOD, 3 INT, and a partridge in a pear tree.
  • Reno defense looked much better vs GASO than did Boise State's. But Reno has no Jeanty and lost 20-17. Lewis looks like a functional quarterback. Which is more than I could say of late.
  • SDSU still sucks. 21-0 home loss to Oregon State
  • Washington State convincing win over Texas Tech

Extra notes:

  • Houston looked much better against Oklahoma than it did against UNLV, losing 16-12 in Norman. Houston QB was 24-28 for 280 and 1TD/1INT
  • Kansas L on the road to Illinois. IMO a bummer. They won't be ranked, and they will have a bitter taste. Friday night can't come soon enough.
  • Kyle McCord and Syracuse are much better than I thought they'd be. I have concerns about McCord picking apart our defense in a few weeks, especially with possibility that McDuffie is out.
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Boise versus Oregon

lvrebalum2012
dcut03 said:
Hard to say this early in the season. UO looked unimpressive in game one. Then this game. The offense looked good, but Boise's defense looked bad. Against a Georgia Southern team that barely bat UNR (which may be slightly better than awful this year).

I think it is safe to say that UO is not a top 10 team right now.

Jeanty is legit. BSU's offense is strong. That is clear.
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Boise’s offense is strong because Jeanty is a beast. He is what is making their offense go. Slow him down or if he starts dealing with injuries, and Boise will be in trouble.
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Jackson Woodward

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Rebelbacker said:
No
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Did he just have a bad game or was he being saved for Kansas?
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Don't think so. I was tracking him much of the first half. He was on and around ball often, had offensive players keep him away from making tackles.

I'd expect more variety from him next week vs Kansas between disguised blitzes and dropping into coverage. Keep Kansas and Daniels from knowing what to expect of him.
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Thanks for your response.
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Kansas game!

dcut03
It sucks to lose McDuffie for a game like this. I think we are much better built to stop to run this season and our back end is much better to allow more people in the box and to spy the qb

One thing for me is still our offense. I know that they really wanted Ricky to get the ball. I think they are trying an AA campaign for him and want to get him stats. Odom practically said so in the post game. But, I would love to see more distribution in the passing game. Cain specifically, but also a little more Bullungay.

To reach our potential we need to have more balance and variety. Hard to say after 2 games where we didn't have to or didn't want to show too much. But also I think real game reps are hard to simulate. So seeing some things in games is key.
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Houston

bcvegaspt2
I watched for a minute or two and saw a stat that the HC for Oklahoma was in his third season. Is this a hotseat season for him when he starts racking up some L's?

In my mind, if they do, there's an outside chance of them going after Odom if we have a 10-win season because that's his neck of the woods, so to speak. The side of me that doesn't think that this makes sense imagines that they will go after a more well established, seasoned HC from a P5.
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Boise versus Oregon

dcut03
Hard to say this early in the season. UO looked unimpressive in game one. Then this game. The offense looked good, but Boise's defense looked bad. Against a Georgia Southern team that barely bat UNR (which may be slightly better than awful this year).

I think it is safe to say that UO is not a top 10 team right now.

Jeanty is legit. BSU's offense is strong. That is clear.
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