The Opponent: UNLV Rebels
When: September 16, 2023 at 6:00 PM CT on the CBS Sports Network
Where: Allegiant Stadium, Las Vegas, Nevada
Last year: 5-7 (3-5 MWC.) The Mountain West, it must be pointed out, was bad last season (see: a Hawaii team that Vanderbilt roughed up in the season opener won two games, and the conference was won by a team that lost to UConn.) But especially considering that UNLV as a program has had exactly one season this millennium and Marcus Arroyo had improved the team from 0-6 to 2-10 to 5-7 in three years, this certainly wasn’t a “fire the coach” bad team, at least to anyone outside the people calling the shots at UNLV.