The Mountain West Conference from top to bottom:
UNLV
Declaring “no job is safe,” UNLV football coach Mike Sanford has let it be known that standing pat defensively is not an option for his team.
FORT COLLINS, Colo. — UNLV’s defense knew what was coming Saturday. Even the fans sitting in the highest bleachers at Hughes Stadium knew.
FORT COLLINS, Colo. — Wide receiver Casey Flair was adamant, saying three times, “There’s not going to be a tailspin.”
CSU UNLV
Excuse any typos in the following because it is October and UNLV football has yet to be eliminated from bowl consideration and that kind of radical occurrence might tend to play tricks when hunting and pecking for ways to comprehend it all.
FORT COLLINS, Colo. — Optimism was high inside and outside UNLV’s football program after four games last year. Then UNR handed the Rebels a heartbreaking loss that began a season-ending eight-game losing streak.
The good news for UNLV: It probably won’t face a quarterback like UNR’s Colin Kaepernick again this season.