GAME NINE

UNLV REBELS (2-6/0-4 Mountain West)
vs.
#20/23 Fresno State (7-1/4-0 Mountain West)

DATE:    
Saturday, Nov. 3, 2018

KICKOFF:    
7:32 pm PT 

SITE:    
Sam Boyd Stadium (35,500/SPRINTURF), Las Vegas

TV:    
CBS Sports Network (Rich Waltz, Aaron Murray & Cassie McKinney)

RADIO:     
ESPN 1100 AM & 100.9 FM (Russ Langer, Caleb Herring & Steve Cofield)

ONLINE:       
Live Stats at www.unlvrebels.com

TICKETS: 
Visit unlvtickets.com or call (702) 739-FANS

SATURDAY'S PREVIEW...
Looking for its first Mountain West win, UNLV (2-6/0-4) hosts first-place and newly ranked #20/23 Fresno State (7-1/4-0) Saturday evening ... The Rebels are coming off a 50-37 loss at San Jose State while the Bulldogs downed Hawai'i at home, 50-20 ... With starter Armani Rogers out indefinitely because of a foot injury, it has now been 22 years since the same quarterback started every game of a season for the Rebels (Jon Denton 1996) ... Rogers was ranked in the top 10 in the nation with 122.0 rushing yards per game when he was knocked out of action ... Rogers' replacement behind center, sophomore Max Gilliam, has thrown for 12 touchdowns in four games, becoming only the second Rebel to reach that amount in four games as Denton had 12 over the final third of the 1996 season (1 vs. FS, 3 at TCU, 4 vs. SDSU, 4 at SJSU) ... Gilliam also became the first UNLV QB to throw at least three TDs in three consecutive games since Denton did it in '96 ... RB Lexington Thomas sits second in the MW and 36th in the country with 90.1 YPG ... Thomas (721 yards in 2018) is the second player in school history to run for at least 500 yards in four different seasons, joining all-time leading rusher Tim Cornett (2011-14) ... Against SJSU, Lex moved past two-time All-American Mike Thomas into second place on UNLV's career rushing list and is one 100-yard rushing game short of tying Thomas' 44-year-old school record of 17 set in 1973-74 ... UNLV goes into Saturday tied for second in the nation with 10 fumbles recovered, just one behind leader Florida ... The Rebels have 14 QB sacks, which is already three more than all of last season.

REBELS vs. BULLDOGS NOTES... 
These programs have played each other as part of three different conferences (Big West, WAC and now MW) ... FS leads the overall series 13-7 but UNLV has won three of the last four meetings ... UNLV RB Charles Williams is out of Fresno's Bullard HS ... FS lists two players who transferred home after signing with UNLV but never played for the Rebels: LB David Tate Jr. and DL Leevel Tatum III ... First-year UNLV OLB coach Eric Brown played at FS in 2007 and was on the 'Dog coaching staff as a student assistant (2008-10) and then GA (2011-12) ... First-year UNLV DC Tim Skipper was a star LB for the Bulldogs from 1997-2000 and spent six seasons on their staff from 2006-11 ... Three FS staffers formerly worked or played for the Rebels: RB coach Jamie Christian and DB coach J.D. Williams were at UNLV in 2015-16 while GA Matt Lea played against the Bulldogs in UNLV's victory in 2016.