Oct. 10, 2005

LAS VEGAS - UNLV's October 22 home game vs. Utah has been picked up by ABC-TV and will be played at 4 p.m. PDT, the Mountain West Conference announced Monday.

The Rebels, who are 2-0 at Sam Boyd Stadium this season, play at Air Force this weekend before hosting the Utes the following Saturday. It will mark UNLV's first appearance on the network since hosting BYU on Oct. 25, 2003. The Rebels are 2-2 on ABC since joining the MWC, with all four of those games coming at home.

Including four more games so far this season, UNLV has appeared on ABC and the ESPN family of networks a total of 29 times since 2000.