Don't know why I didn't do this sooner.

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As of my last knowledge update in September 2021, Allegiant Stadium, located in Las Vegas, Nevada, has approximately 26,000 seats in the 100 level. Please note that stadium configurations and seating capacities may change, so I recommend checking the official Allegiant Stadium website or contacting the stadium directly for the most up-to-date information on seating capacity.

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Hate to admit this but I'm using a little chunk of my Sunday late morning to manually check this number... sections 101-112 total to 7192 by my count. Still working on the other half of the home side... I know won't be exactly 1 to 1, but I imagine it'll be close on the opposite side. Gonna look at the mirrored areas for configuration differences...

If 26k is in the ballpark, I'd estimate we were right around a legit 25k yesterday?

2nd straight week Rebels leaned heavily on run game. 2nd straight week an opponent had no answer for it.

Staff continues to put Maiava in favorable situations on 3rd down by committing to the run.

Offense showed a number of new wrinkles this week, namely utilizing presnap motion, which they hadn't done all season. (We were last in the country in presnap motion heading into the game)

Committee approach at RB is giving opponents a headache I think because while they all have slightly different skill sets, all are capable of filling in regardless of what the play call. Makes it hard on opposing DCs to find any trends.

Defensively I thought Rebels were excellent. It's hard in today's football to keep teams under 24 points. 6 more sacks in the game couple that with 10 TFL. Hawaii was playing behind the chains all night.

Yes Rebels gave up a couple long pass plays, but it took until the third quarter and Hawaii digging deep into the playbook with a double reverse back to QB to score their first touchdown.

What's nice to see is how multiple and aggressive the defense has been under Odom. Early they attacked Hawaii with a lot of stunts up front. Later they brought guys from both LB and safety positions to rush the passer. Funny thing is they technically aren't blitzing even when it's a LB or DB rushing the passer because they are still only bringing 4 guys and generating pressure.

They play like this vs Reno and we could see a very similiar score.

As we enter week 6 it's time to start thinking about Bowl opportunities. We all believe that we will be playing in a bowl game but which one?. I can’t remember them all but one of my best Sam Boyd memories is that Beat Down we put on Houston Nut's Arkansas team. Here is the full rundown of MWC bowl games for 2023 per MWCwire.

The college football season is just around the corner and now is a great time to predict the bowl matchups for the Mountain West teams.

The best option is making the College Football Playoff or making it as the Group of Five representative for a New Year’s Six bid which goes to the highest ranked champion from these five conferences.

The Mountain West has five guaranteed bowl tie-ins, an alternate bowl game, and this year there are four at-large bowl games that are against a Group of Five team.

Basically, if a team from this league gets to bowl eligibility they will go to a bowl game.

– Famous Idaho Potato Bowl vs MAC
– Jimmy Kimmel LA Bowl vs Pac-12
– New Mexico Bowl vs Conference USA
– Barstool Arizona Bowl vs MAC
– EasyPost Hawai’i Bowl vs American Athletic

Mountain West has an affiliation to fill if needed …
– Guaranteed Rate Bowl vs Big Ten or Big 12

To be determined among the Group of Five conferences … as other options
– Duluth Trading Co. Cure Bowl vs Group of Five
– Frisco Bowl vs Group of Five
– RoofClaim.com Boca Raton Bowl vs Group of Five
– SERVPRO First Responder Bowl vs Group of Five

Odom Response is the best.

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Line up your predictions, post updates, info, insights, stats, embed tweets, videos, pics, whatever you want … make your picks and post as the game progresses, this will serve as the game thread. Anything you want related to the Hawaii at UNLV game, Saturday afternoon in Las Vegas.

Saw an interesting stat today.

Unlv is last in the nation (not good or bad) in pre-snap motion on offense. We only use motion about 4% of the time. I found this fascinating because this offense is built around creating mismatches and deception. I would have figured using motion would aid in that. Yet based on numbers we rarely put guys in motion.

I'm not sure if we'll see more of it as season wears on to create more deception or if this offense relies more on just the unbalanced sets it employs. Be interesting to monitor going forward.

I can’t believe I have to ask this in this day and age but is there a way for out of towner’s to watch today’s game?

Unless you want to pay Spectrum Sports as Hawaii owns the rights to the game. I understand it in Hawaii but not when we are at home. Hopefully someone can figure out a work around. I just want to thank X-Factor for helping us last week and hope he can help this week.

You may need to use ad block on this, but its better than nothing!

He do a nice pre game stuff for their board.

With the news that Clemson has likely found some way to get out of the Grant of Rights for the ACC, and is planning to leave, along with multiple other schools, it got me to thinking.

Allegedly, the SEC and BIG 10 are going to invite 4-5 of the schools, and then the Big 12 maybe gets another 4. As it stands now, the ACC has 14 teams. They've 'added Cal, Stanford, and SMU to start next season, but that's where my questions start.

If 9 of the 14 current teams, including pretty much all of the top market teams leave the ACC, does that void their TV contract? I'd have to think it would have a serious impact on it, but I'm not in the loop on how it's structured.

If that happens, and the ACC has to restructure it's TV deal, would Cal, Stanford and SMU still want to join the ACC, knowing that it's a fading conference that may lose it's P5 status, similar to what happened to the Pac 12?

Have Cal, Stanford and SMU officially put in their notice to leave their current conferences? If I was Cal and Stanford, I'd really be rethinking my plan to join a crumbling ACC, and instead try to salvage what's left of the PAC 12 with OSU, WSU, and then pulling in the best of the rest.

Thoughts?

Just got back from El Paso. Sun Bowl was actually pretty cool stadium. Built right into the Mountain. Offered some nice views.

As for the game..

Thought the offense was steady especially the run game. Nearly had two backs go over 100 yards. Thought Maiava handled his first ever start pretty well. Made some big throws to convert on third down. Biggest criticism would be he needs to know when a play is dead. Put the ball in danger twice (one interception) on plays that were dead and he should have either taken sack or thrown it away.

Defense: Said this in another thread and I think it holds true. Schematically the defense is pretty sound. Play calling (and of course individual effort/talent) have lead to some big plays (sacks/TFL/turnovers). These aren't all of Odom's guys. Or guys that fit what he wants to do. Give it another year or two and I really think Rebs could start having defenses that look like SDSU has had in years past. Maybe not quite that dominant but pretty damn good.

Special Teams: No big returns this week but coverage was again sound and they had the blocked punt leading to a score so they once again impacted the game positively.

And yes the kicker made a FG and all his extra points for the communists on here that care about kickers.

Coaching. Thought they game planned well on offensive side of the ball. Leaned on run game early to make things easy on Maiava in his first start. I really like how many different looks we give teams on offense and defense. Defense got after the QB well. I think penalties (especially the false starts need to get cleaned up).

Do You Believe!!
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Grey pants again
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I am not surprised. They can't start the Reverse Merger until they have complete control.

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I get that Vegas is a tourist destination. I get that Steelers fans travel extremely well (Steelers fan myself) I am all for people and don't blame folks for selling their tix to away fans to recoup some money...

But holy crap Allegiant got overrun tonight..


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Reno tops the list of happiest places to live.

Foot injury?


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This following in FSU's footsteps. Look for UNC next.

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I wasn't a fan of his as a player, but I want to believe in the man he portrays himself to be as a coach.

The world needs heroes, too. I'm tired of people finding fault in others. Let's look for the good!

and Doug Brumfield is still listed as QB1.

Where were you when you see this? I just started work in Oregon when the TV came on. The TV replay over and over the first plane plunged into the South Tower. Then during watching replay, the camera went live to capture the second plane plunged in....