When UNLV opened the college football season Sept. 5 in a cornfield outside of Chicago, the Rebels covered the spread against Northern Illinois in a resounding fashion. They were driving toward more respectability — and perhaps even a touchdown and an attempt at a game-tying 2-point conversion — when Blake Decker threw a fourth-down pass to Devonte Boyd.
It was a nice pass, a pass that Boyd probably catches 98 times out of 100, because Boyd is pretty good.
(I was tempted to say he probably catches that pass 99 times out of 100, but I remember Keenan McCardell dropping a pass here, and McCardell was the best at catching passes the Rebels ever had — he went on to catch 883 in the NFL, for 11,373 yards.