GAME 14: Scooter's Coffee Frisco Bowl

(#RV/RV) UNLV REBELS (10-3/6-2 Mountain West)
vs.
Ohio (8-4/6-2 Mid-American)

DATE:  Tuesday, Dec. 23, 2025
KICKOFF:  6:05 pm PT 
SITE:  Ford Center at the Star (12,000/Artificial) Frisco, TX
TV:  ESPN (Wes Durham, Steve Addazio & Dana Boyle)
RADIO:  ESPN 1100 AM & 100.9 FM (Matt Neverett, Caleb Herring & Steve Cofield)
NATIONAL RADIO:  Bowl Season Radio (Brian Estridge, Elvis Gallegos & Chris Mycoskie)

BOWL GAME PREVIEW...
UNLV (10-3/6-2) will play in its third consecutive bowl game for the first time in history when it meets Ohio (8-4/6-2 MAC) on Tuesday, Dec. 23 in the Scooter's Coffee Frisco Bowl ... UNLV has now received at least one vote in either the AP or Coaches' poll for the 34th time in the last 35 polls ... The Rebels started a season 9-2 for the third straight year and then earned double-digit victories for only the fourth time in school history and first time in back-to-back campaigns ... A win would tie this year's team for the second-most wins in a season (behind 12 in 1974) and tie for the most since moving to D-I (1984, 2024) ... UNLV just finished playing in its third consecutive Mountain West Championship game on Dec. 5 ... The Rebs lead all of college football with 11 road wins since the start of last season and are also tied for the eighth-most overall wins in the FBS since the start of 2024 with 21 ... While this neutral-site game doesn't qualify, the Rebels are 15-5 in true road games since the start of 2023 after only winning eight total road games in the previous six seasons (8-25) ... With a win, head coach Dan Mullen would tie Jeff Tedford (.727) for the sixth-best career bowl record by percentage ... Since falling 35-7 at eventual national champion Michigan in the second game of 2023, UNLV has scored at least 20 points in each of its last 34 regular-season games. That's the longest active such streak in the FBS (Miami is next at 27 games) ... The Rebels have rushed for at least one touchdown in 26 consecutive games, the second-longest active FBS streak (Jacksonville State, 27) ... UNLV's 14 straight games with at least one passing and one rushing TD is tied with Notre Dame for the second-longest active such streak (Texas Tech, 20) ... These teams have only faced each other once before as UNLV downed Ohio 26-18 at the now-shuttered Sam Boyd Silver Bowl on Sept. 24, 1988 ... UNLV is 8-10 all-time vs. teams in the Mid-American Conference, including winning 41-38 at Miami (OH) earlier this season ... This will mark the third time the Rebels face a MAC team in a bowl game, having downed Toledo in the 1984 California Bowl, 30-13, and then Central Michigan in the 1994 Las Vegas Bowl, 52-24 ... UNLV will play its second bowl game in the state of Texas as the Rebels fell 36-14 to North Texas in the Heart of Dallas Bowl played at Cotton Bowl Stadium on New Year's Day 2014.