When the entirety of Sam Boyd Stadium exhaled late Saturday afternoon from the sheer lunacy that had just transpired — and we are talking some sort of wild and crazy, my friends — UNLV’s football team had earned itself a three-overtime win against favored Wyoming because of a simple but significant element.
It ran the you-know-what out of the ball.
It might have been a Mountain West game, but this was a glimpse of the old Western Athletic Conference, where scoreboards lit up weekly and teams made folly of over/under totals posted by sports books.
The second-highest-scoring game in Football Bowl Subdivision history was so wacky and entertaining, you half expected fans of the losing side to immediately march in protest.