GAME 5: Mountain West Opener

(#RV/RV) UNLV REBELS (4-0/0-0 Mountain West)
At
Wyoming (2-2/0-0 Mountain West)

DATE: Saturday, Oct. 4, 2025
KICKOFF: 4:02 pm PT 
SITE: War Memorial Stadium (29,000/Artificial) Laramie, WY
TV: CBS Sports Network (Dave Ryan & Adam Breneman)
RADIO: ESPN 1100 AM & 100.9 FM (Matt Neverett, Caleb Herring & Steve Cofield)
SiriusXM: Channel 384

SATURDAY'S PREVIEW...
Undefeated UNLV (4-0/0-0), which continued to receive votes in both the AP and Coaches' polls, opens its conference schedule with a rare trip to Wyoming (2-2/0-0) on Saturday evening ... This will mark the Rebels first trip to Laramie since 2019 ... The Rebels, who have posted back-to-back 4-0 starts for the first time in history, look to earn a 5-0 start for the first time since 1974 when the program was a member of Division II ... UNLV is one of 20 undefeated teams in the FBS ... The Rebels just defeated every non-conference opponent on their schedule for the first time since joining a league in 1982 ... Head coach Dan Mullen's team is coming off a 41-38 win at Miami (OH) on Sept. 20 that marked the program's first victory in 15 all-time trips to the Eastern Time Zone as well as its first on the road vs. a team in the Mid-American Conference ... Mullen is the first UNLV coach to begin his career in Las Vegas 4-0 since Tony Knap started 4-0 in 1976 ... The Rebels are 12-3 in true road games since the start of 2023 after only winning eight total road games in the previous six seasons (8-25) ... UNLV is currently tied for second nationally with Maryland and Southern Miss for the most interceptions in the nation with eight and Rebel DB Aamaris Brown is tied with one player to lead all of college football with four interceptions (after posting a pick in a school-record four straight games) ... UNLV is tied fourth for the most overall turnovers gained with 10 and is tied for fifth nationally in turnover margin at plus-six ... 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 26 regular-season games. That's the second-longest active such streak in the FBS, behind only Memphis (42 straight). 

REBELS vs. COWBOYS NOTES...
WYO leads this wildly competitive series 14-12 overall but the Rebels won the last meeting back in 2023 in Las Vegas ... These two squads have only played each other once since 2020 ... Since the formation of the MW in 1999, UNLV has averaged 32.0 PPG vs. the Cowboys ... Amazingly, four of UNLV's 18 all-time OT games have come against WYO but all of them took place in Las Vegas (1998, 2002, 2004 & 2016) ... Formerly a series of streaks, UNLV won the first three games by a total of 13 points. WYO then had a four-game winning streak before UNLV's five-game burst (1999-2003).