Obviously a rivalry game and everything that goes with that. This is UNRs Bowl game/National Championship Game... nothing else exists past this game for them. They want nothing more than to hand us an L.
We obviously have tremendous motivation too - I get that!
My main concern is Reno players playing dirty... injuring our players... late hits, targeting, rolling with someone's leg, low blocks, ... etc. Just trash play to get a W... or take us down with them. I think it could be amplified if we pull ahead significantly.

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They’re just built different.

I felt like the Memphis game was a huge game for us, but it didn't get much publicity, and the attendance was poor (6,510) for being the biggest non-conference home game of the season. Memphis is still undefeated and knocked off #2 UCONN yesterday and Michigan State today. The Rebels hung with them and could have won that game. I guess I just wished it would have been a better home court advantage with a much bigger and enthusiastic crowd. Memphis plays in the championship game of the Maui Invitational tomorrow against the winner of Auburn and North Carolina. That looks like the loss to Memphis won't hurt UNLV but a win would have really helped.

I’m at the game. It sure would be nice if we were able to get in games that had an environment like this.

So now that UNLV is back on track to play in the MW championship game against Boise, I'm starting to look more into the chances that UNLV has for getting into the College Football Playoff (CFP).

From the CFP website, here are some of the criteria that they give for determining the 12 teams to make it:

Key #1 - the 5 highest ranked (by CFP selection committee) conference champions get an automatic bid. Right now, obviously the Big10, SEC, and ACC have teams ranked in the top 10, so they would be likely to take 3 of the 5 bids. After that, it will be between the MW, Big 12, and American conference to get the other 2 bids.

-Big 12 has 9 teams that are within 1 game of first place. I don't know the criteria on who would have tiebreakers and everything, but the best Big 12 teams by record are ASU, BYU, and Iowa State, with Colorado coming in with 1 more loss overall.

-American conference has two teams tied at 7-0 in conference. Army is 9-1 and was ranked #19 last week prior to losing to Notre Dame, so they should be dropping. Tulane is 9-2 and was ranked #20 in the CFP rankings last week, but didn't play. Ideally, UNLV can jump Tulane, but I don't see it happening just by us beating UNR.

So if UNLV wins out including beating Boise, we would be 11-2 with a marquee win over Boise State.
Army has 2 more games and could end up 11-1, and will play Tulane in the championship game.
Tulane has 1 more game and will end up playing Army in the championship game.

So I think the big question is, would UNLV be ranked higher than either
1. The Big 12 champion, or
2. The American conference champion.

Assuming that any of the 2 loss Big 12 teams end up winning the Big 12 championship, I have a hard time believing that UNLV could end up ranked higher than them, so that leaves us matching up against the American conference champion.

When the new polls come out tomorrow, I'm assuming that UNLV will pass Army in the rankings (mostly due to them having a really weak schedule and getting blown out by Notre Dame), but we'll likely still be ranked lower than Tulane. If Tulane wins this week and beats Army in the championship game, they may be hard for UNLV to jump in the CFP rankings. We might be better off if Army beats Tulane in the championship game, but I'm not sure.

At a glance, Tulane's schedule doesn't look very tough, but for some reason the computers like them. In the ESPN power index, Tulane is #17, while Boise is #27, UNLV is #43 and Army is #54.

I just heard that Michigan flipped LSU’s big QB commit Underwood with a $10MM NIL offer. For one player. Insanity.

How high will UNLV be tomorrow in the polls with a few teams ahead of us losing?

#14 BYU, #15 Texas A.M. # 19 Army.. Colorado lost as well..

We should be ahead of all of them no?

Are we looking at a top 18ish ranking?

CRhodes

Is there some kind of war going on with ESPN 11:00 and UNLV.

I listened to the ENTIRE 3 hours this A.M. for a discussion on our upcoming game, our possible playoff game and our potential CFP possibilities.

NOTHING. ZERO. NADA.

I thought we would get a 15 minute segment somewhere in there. I really expected a short interview with any coach. Or any player. Or possibly a past player. I expected some discussion on when the game is Saturday. Ticket availability. Perhaps a ticket giveaway from the university.

NOTHING.

I fully understand UNLV ranks down the list on Sports priorities - but it isn't non existent.

There has to be a reason for complete exclusion of our football program from any discussion.

This isn't a small thing. If I was coach I would use this as part of my calculation on whether I could rise the program up to where I want it to be.

What (hopefully) one-off uni selection will UNLV choose going up against Reno.

KenPom has us a 2 pt dog.

I think Cherry dominates again. Plus, DTJ goes off for 26 and 12.

Rebels 74 Memphis 68.

FSU as the OC?

Dear Dedan;
I love you. You are a local kid. A good ball player. I’m glad you stayed home. But I expected more of a Runnin Rebel point guard. Not one who prefers to “bring” the ball up court. A few passes to see if someone can create a shot, if not, the ball goes to you to dribble till the shot clock is winding down and you try to get a shot off. Which you’re good at but it’s a bad strategy for 80% of our offense. We COULD be so much better to play a much more up tempo early offense. One of our head coaches biggest weaknesses is wanting to “ not be sped up”. Anti Runnin Rebel thought process. Dedan, it’s on you. Speed it up. Think ASSIST. Quit dribbling so much. It would make the whole team better. Now let’s go…….

We moved here a week ago so there will be at least one UNLV fan in Santa Fe rooting for the rebels. The fact that UNLV must
Beat UNR to hopefully make it the conference championship game is very cool. I love the idea of playing BSU again. I am really curious
to which team makes the best adjustments based on the first game.

But keeping on point, beating our sister institution from the north is the job at hand. Go Rebels!

KenPom has us a 2 pt dog.

I think Cherry dominates again. Plus, DTJ goes off for 26 and 12.

Rebels 74 Memphis 68.

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I know it’s a long shot but at least we have odds. Like in dumb and dumber, “so you’re saying there’s a chance.”

Even if we don’t make the playoffs, this is exciting as hell.

Memphis-UCONN going to ot in maui. UNLV is monster if you go be memphis game.
UCONN been feasting on lowly teams, good test for them, I wish UNLV had hoops coach.

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Getting an extension

Former Reb to start against Nebraska. USC wants to change things up.

We just beat SJSU and Coach is already thinking about UNR before he even gets off a rainy ass field. Let’s cap the regular season off with a RED cannon and a 10 win season!

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ASU got an amazing RB named Cam Skattaboo. ****ing John Riggins clone.

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Notre Dame 7 Army 0 first quarter

Wyoming 3 Boise 0 first quarter

Oregon State 7 Washington State 0 first quarter

Baylor 7 Houston 0 first quarter

Arizona State 28 byu 23 game over

Kansas 37 Colorado 21 game over

Syracuse 31 Uconn 24 game over

May as well start a thread talking all things UNLV at SJSU. Suffice it to say, huge game, but they all are here until the end.

Haven’t seen the line yet, guessing UNLV will be around a 6 point favorite. There are no roll overs, won’t even be one for the UNR game. SJSU is going to go all out and they certainly CAN beat UNLV.

I think it’s going to be a really tough game.