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.

Houston looked way better than the rest of the country thought they would after being destroyed by UNLV. The game verse Oklahoma went to the last minute before the winner was decided in comparison to the last minute verse UNLV when Houston finally scored!

I think we need to win the turnover margin by at least +2 to win. if we win and dont do that then i will be impressed.

Defense was tremendous. Tackling and especially quickness, very strong. Jackson and McDuffie were great at LB. Secondary came up with some big plays but were largely untested, in part because the line (and linebackers) got pressure, some great penetration on the D line, Doyle showed why he was a big pickup. Obviously Cam and Catalon were really good.

Jacob is an offensive key because of his versatility and quickness. I liked what the RBs provided overall, watch out for Burrell in the future. Sluka was so so, some bad decisions, some amazing passes, great legs. The Oline was solid too.

De Jesus is a pivotal piece because of his speed, elusiveness and flexibility within the offense. I thought the RBs were pretty good overall, watch out for Burrell in the future. Receivers were ok, a ton of depth and talent but not a whole lot of utilization. The score dictate no air game in the second half.

Kicking, glad he made a mid distance one, but am concerned if it’s needed.

I think he got some time at LB, maybe after Elad was bounced for targeting, but I’ve heard Correa from Gorman will be an LB stud. Also heard that, even though we won’t see him, the freshman QB from El Paso (Ochoa?) will be the real deal.

Houston actually sucked. Offensively, they were clueless. Slow to read and react. In part probably because UNLV was focused in quick but my guess is they suck offensively as well.

Happy overall though. Kinda freewheeling heading into Kansas. Next week, shore up those stupid mistakes, work on fundamentals, keep the playbook closed, win by 30 plus and head to Kansas, hopefully healthy. Get Hajj time in game two.

Rebels 38 UT 3

Would we be looking at 30,000 rebel fans and 15,000 opponents fans for a total of around 45,000 a game?

Once again it is great to be part of the discussion! Also, positive east coast pub is a good thing.

https://nypost.com/2024/09/04/betting/2024-college-football-predictions-why-unlv-will-make-the-cfp/

Syracuse not looking real impressive so far. Ohio running the ball almost at will and has almost 100 yds rushing with 2 mins left in the 1st qtr.

These should go heavy into rotation.

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Hopefully we can exceed expectations.

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.