GAME 3:
UNLV REBELS (1-1/1-0 Mountain West)
At
North Texas (0-1/0-0 American Conference)
DATE: Saturday, Sept. 12, 2026
KICKOFF: 12:50 pm PTÂ
SITE:Â DACTU Stadium (31,100/Artificial), Denton, TX
TV:Â ESPNU (Chuckie Kempf & Dustin Fox)
RADIO: ESPN 1100 AM & 100.9 FM (Matt Neverett, Caleb Herring & Steve Cofield)
SATURDAY'S PREVIEW...
After never having played a team from the American Conference, UNLV (1-1/1-0) will now face its second in three weeks when it makes a trip to North Texas (0-1) Saturday on ESPNU ... The Rebels have won six straight true road games against non-Mountain West teams, the longest such streak in conference history. In fact, UNLV, which won at Hawai'i on Saturday, has two more road victories than any other team in college football since the start of the 2024 season with 12 ... The Rebels will look to win a non-conference game in the state of Texas for the fourth consecutive season (at UTEP in 2023, at Houston in 2024 and at Sam Houston last fall) ... UNLV, which has the 10th-most victories in the nation over the last two years, hopes to continue its record run after having played in the MW Championship Game and appeared in a bowl game for an unprecedented three consecutive seasons ... 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 36 regular-season games. That's by far the longest active such streak in the FBS ... The Rebels earned a pair of MW weekly honors on Monday as S
Tre Fulton was tabbed the Defensive Player of the Week and DL Kel-El Togafau was named Freshman of the Week.Â
REBELS vs. MEAN GREEN NOTES...Â
UNLV leads the all-time series 5-1 and won the most-recent meeting, 58-27, in Las Vegas in 2022 ... UNT's lone win came in the 2014 Heart of Dallas Bowl in the famed Cotton Bowl Stadium on New Year's Day ... The Rebels are making just their second visit to Denton. The first trip marked the UNLV debut of legendary head coach John Robinson, who earned a 26-3 victory over the Mean Green on Sept. 2, 1999, to break the school's 26-game road losing skid ... UNLV lists a program-record high 16 players from the Lone Star State on its current roster, including Denton native and starting QB
Jackson Arnold who transferred to Las Vegas from Auburn after starting his career at Oklahoma out of John H. Guyer HS (Dec. 2022 grad) ... Former UNLV DB Cameren Jenkins is playing his senior season at UNT after transferring to Baylor following the 2023 season in Las Vegas ... Second-year UNLV TE coach Adrian Mayes coached the same position at UNT from 2019-22 ... UNT professor Neal Smatresk served as president of both UNLV (2009-13) and UNT (2014-24.
