Five players to watch when UNLV’s football team plays at Central Michigan at 12 p.m. Saturday in Mount Pleasant, Michigan:
Cooper Rush, QB, Central Michigan: The fourth-year senior starter completed 30 of 42 passes for 361 yards and four touchdowns in Saturday’s thrilling 30-27 upset win over then-No. 22 Oklahoma State. Rush lofted a 51-yard Hail Mary hook-and-ladder play that Jesse Kroll caught at the 9-yard line and lateraled to Corey Willis, who raced across the field into the end zone. Rush also threw seven TD passes in the Chippewas’ wild 49-48 loss to Western Kentucky in the 2014 Bahamas Bowl.