There's a buzz surrounding this year's UNLV Rebels and Nevada Wolf Pack rivalry game that's been absent for quite some time. A buzz generated largely by the start of the Tony Sanchez era in Las Vegas.
The Rebels enter Reno on Saturday attempting to do what just one Scarlet and Gray squad has done in the last 10 years, bring the Fremont Cannon to UNLV. Nevada won last year's matchup 49-27, and holds a 24-16 all time advantage in the rivalry.
This is a different UNLV team, though. A UNLV team that navigated the waters of a treacherous non-conference schedule that included Northern Illinois, UCLA, and Michigan, before capturing their first victory of the season last week, an eye-popping 80-8 win over the Idaho State Bengals.