Oct. 22, 2001

LAS VEGAS - Kickoff time of UNLV football's home finale vs. Utah on Saturday, Nov. 3, has been moved up one hour from 1 p.m. to noon PST to accommodate television, the school announced Monday.

The game has been officially chosen by ESPN+Plus as the Mountain West Conference Game of the Week and will appear on 20 stations throughout the nation, including KFBT TV Gold 33 in Las Vegas. The announcers will be play-by-play man Jim Kelly, analyst JC Pearson and sideline reporter Beth Mowins.

The game will mark the first time the Rebels have appeared on an ESPN+Plus telecast in 2001 after three appearances on the network a year ago.

The announcement also means that all 11 UNLV games will be televised for the first time in school history. The New Mexico game on Nov. 10 is already slated for a SportsWest broadcast on KLAS TV-8 while the season finale at Air Force on Nov. 17 will either be an ESPN+Plus or SportsWest broadcast.

2001 REMAINING UNLV SCHEDULE

DATE    LV TIME OPP     NETWORK                 LAS VEGAS CHANNEL
Oct. 27 3 pm    at Wyoming  SportsWest          Cox Cable channels 1 & 39Nov. 3  12 pm   UTAH        ESPN+Plus           KFBT TV Gold 33Nov. 10 4 pm    at New Mexico   SportsWest          KLAS TV-8Nov. 17 TBA at Air Force    ESPN+Plus or SportsWest TBA