This sound like our very best QB after this year. I am sad that it is NOT Friel. But this kid looks legit. I agree with what the confidential board have said. Of course, they have seen him more than any of us outside the state. More info will be brought up as people who know and have witnessed say otherwise. My pick is Hayden Anderson, the carrot top kid with wicked speed and heights. Love his demeanours too.

Having trouble getter twitter post over. Great deal for students for the unr game, if they show up at the game Saturday!

From @SuperSportsWest X account

9.2M—USC-LSU, ABC
4.8M—NDSU-Colorado, ESPN
2.6M—Fresno St-Michigan, NBC
1.84M—CSU-Texas, ESPN
1.13M—UCLA-Hawai'l, CBS
953K—New Mexico-Arizona, ESPN
425K—Idaho-Oregon, BTN
381K—Idaho St-Ore St, The CW
306K—Weber St-Washington, BTN
253K—Wyoming-ASU, FS1
223K—Portland St-WSU, The CW
172K—UNLV-Houston, FS1

Hey, it’s way early. But it sure is nice to be part of the discussion.

The Buzzin’ Dozen​

How The Dash would seed the playoff if today were Selection Sunday. (As usual, this is based on actual results to date, not preseason rankings or conjecture. If you played an FCS opponent in Week 1, you’re not up for consideration here.)

• No. 1 seed: Georgia (SEC champion)
• No. 2 seed: Penn State (Big Ten champion)
• No. 3 seed: Miami (ACC champion)
• No. 4 seed: TCU (Big 12 champion)
• No. 5 seed: Notre Dame (at-large selection)
• No. 6 seed: USC (at-large selection)
• No. 7 seed: Georgia Tech (at-large selection)
• No. 8 seed: Vanderbilt (at-large selection)
• No. 9 seed: Ohio State (at-large selection)
• No. 10 seed: Texas (at-large selection)
• No. 11 seed: LSU (at-large selection)
• No. 12 seed: UNLV (Group of 5 champion)

First-round matchups: UNLV at Notre Dame; LSU at USC; Texas at Georgia Tech; Ohio State at Vanderbilt.
First-round byes: Georgia, Penn State, Miami, TCU.



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Lost 31-7 to Montana State over the weekend in St. George. From the local media:


“The Utah Tech football season opener was a tough watch for the home crowd.

The Trailblazers took on the Montana State Bobcats, the No. 4 team in the FCS, and battled to a 31-7 loss on Saturday night.

It was the Trailblazers' first game with head coach Lance Anderson at the helm, and the Bobcats spoiled his debut. Montana State controlled the ball for 45 minutes, chewing up the clock with their 56 rushing attempts.

Utah Tech hoped to limit the Bobcats' run game, but gave up 329 rushing yards and three rushing touchdowns. Scottre Humphrey led the charge with 107 yards on the ground, and quarterback Tommy Mellott contributed 80 of his own, along with two touchdowns.

Mellott also had 147 passing yards despite throwing the ball less than a third of the time.

In what little time the Trailblazers had, the Utah Tech offense collected a total of six first downs. Quarterback Deacon Hill threw for 107 yards, with Eni Falayi being his favorite target. Falayi had 64 yards on five receptions to lead the team.

The Bobcats scored all 31 of their points — four touchdowns and a field goal — before the Trailblazers could ruin the shutout. In fact, Utah Tech did not even earn a first down until the fourth quarter. Their sole score came from Hill, as all 258 pounds of him chugged down the sideline for a 24-yard touchdown run. It was the team's longest run of the game and made Hill the Trailblazers' leading rusher.

Defensively, Utah Tech had a few bright spots. They excited the crowd by blocking a field goal attempt in the second quarter, and had a few tackles for loss, including a sack by Laytan Tanuvasa that took 9 yards from the Bobcats.

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Looks like they hit a snag.

Good to see this exposure, but it's SO early in the season. I'm interested to see how Houston plays against Oklahoma - try and get a better picture of how things stack up. I know we have a game in front of us to win first, and by a large margin, but I'm really excited for the Kansas game. That will be the true test to see how much we've improved.

Pre-game chat and info, in game discussion.

Add as you please.

So pumped. Haven’t stopped thinking about it all week.

Should be battle of the sunken basketball programs. Stakes are gonna be high.

The Cougar Football Forum shows a huge amount more interest than our board. For instance they currently have 1,800 posts on the UNLV game week thread. We have 261 on our game thread. ( This isn't an absolute comparison in that we have more of our posts spread over several related topics and their "Game Week" posts and more concentrated in one place. But adding all our posts concerning Houston we aren't even close to 1/3 the Houston board )

Not sure what this means. I know the city and surrounding area of Houston has double the population of Las Vegas and surrounding area. ( Houston being the 5th largest Metro area in the U.S. Plus, when you go out to 100 miles the difference gets even more drastic.) But, I have always used Houston as my example of a school that has similar issues to Las Vegas for entering a Power Conference. ( Urban school with pro sports competition). Up until last year when they entered the B12 their attendance had been down for the previous 5/6 years. But there was a time when 35,000 to 40,000 was the norm when they were regularly ranked and had near annual bowl appearances.

I think the interest in UNLV ( as demonstrated by the meager forum activity, minimal newspaper coverage and weak attendance) needs to increase drastically for us to think about getting an invite to a power conference. I'm hoping more success will drive it.

I noticed that they had UNLV listed at the end of the wrapping up week 1 title and was curious what they said about UNLV? I do not have ESPN plus, but understand if someone wants to keep it top secret!

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Interview starts around 28:30. Havent heard it through, but im sure it'll be of interest.

Poster they are giving out on Saturday. Action Jackson (Jackson Woodard)

I wonder why, it doesn't hurt to add two good teams to the schedule.

… well, not preach, people can make up their own minds …

But I do emphasize my opinion that I believe it’s best for people to use their own eyes to judge, certainly not news outlets (very slanted, lack context, controlled) … not using just highlights …. Not utilizing a star system or ranking system … your own eyes have more power, imo. You all know sports well enough, we all do. You know what you see …

And while I preach that, sometimes it’s not possible to see things with your own eyes. The next best thing is people you trust, people who don’t have much of a slant if any … they just give it to you like it is. And hold onto those people and hold onto that trust.

That said, in spite of my head and heart not allowing me to fully digest what was told to me … because of the past (yes, that’s bias, I realize that, it’s also human nature) …. Based on the info I received last week, football performed just about as expected. Fast defense, deep defense, great linebacking, strong secondary, fast, opportunistic …. Some individual player reports that hit true …. The usage of De Jesus, types of plays, gravely worried about kicking … etc, etc, etc … that we’d beat Houston without much problem … so the info I received was spot on.

Now the below info comes from a couple of people I trust with info since I didn’t get to workouts … not saying it’s true … it’s just a solid consensus, some from a couple months ago …

Cherry looks good, Dedan is Dedan, we know what we are getting out of Whaley … everyone else, pretty much plus or minus a little bit, is essentially “the same” as what we’ve had in terms of impact. Essentially mediocre MWC players where some may have a couple good games in a row, some might over perform a bit, some will underperform a little bit … some young rawness that might do some things but it won’t be sustained or consistent … just, pretty much, more of the same … expected to be a fringe type NIT team… workouts, urgency have been just mediocre … no real oooomph to be found. Speed is ok, athleticism as a team is ok, defense is ok, offense is slower … just mediocre across the board.

Hopefully they can find something to rally around, a team unity, a one mind because if you have that, talent doesn’t need to be off the charts but I’ve heard nothing “special” in that regard either.

So I don’t know … haven’t heard of a bar, a goal that has to be met in order to continue with Kevin, I think most of us that still care (not many left) believe it’s get into the NCAAT or get out; mine (which carries zero weight) is a little stricter, get an at large, not a fluke MWCT win, to make the NCAAT. Unless we are firmly projected for the field and we win the MWCT to get an auto, that is … and I’m fine by that, that would be best.

We will see.

Rebs 34 Coogs 31. Coogs miss a 34 yard FG to tie in the last second.