Through five games, Vanderbilt has faced five teams with varying degrees of good defenses. Even Northern Illinois had some fight on that side of the ball.
UNLV... is not that team.
Five games into the season, UNLV ranks 118th nationally in scoring defense, allowing 37.4 points per game. Even better, the Rebels have only faced one Power 5 team to date — and ironically, that game, against Northwestern, represented their best defensive performance against an FBS team, “holding” the Wildcats to just 30 points. Meanwhile, Arkansas State scored 43, Wyoming scored 53, and Boise State scored 38.