The belief began last year for the UNLV football team, when it put together its best season since 2003, and that confidence has carried over.
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First-year Wyoming coach Dave Christensen has seen Oklahoma’s talent up close — a bit too close for comfort — and isn’t confident of Brigham Young’s chances of beating the Sooners in the teams’ season opener Saturday.
A weekly Q&A feature’s first installment is with fifth-year coach Mike Sanford, whose Rebels open the season at 7 p.m. Saturday against Sacramento State at Sam Boyd Stadium. Each week, the Review-Journal will ask 20 questions of a member of the UNLV football team.
He got repetitions in practice, occasional handoffs in games, but tailback Channing Trotter didn’t quite seem a part of the UNLV football team.
UNLV freshman wide receiver Mark Barefield didn’t wait until this week to get his first taste of trying to balance college academics and football.
The first-string defense is supposed to stop the second-string offense, and that was precisely what UNLV’s starters did Saturday at Sam Boyd Stadium.
Before he can compete to be UNLV’s starting running back, C.J. Cox has to walk, and that has become a problem.
