Kansas State has made a habit of improving its football team each season through early junior college signings and Arizona State followed suit in December, adding six mid-year junior college signees.
UNLV, which went 3-9 last season under first-year coach Tony Sanchez and had chances to win several other games, has adopted the same approach, adding a school-record eight junior college players in December who are slated to start school Tuesday and take part in spring practices from March 7 to April 9.
"We're not that far away. We had a very competitive season last year," Sanchez said.