Mountain West · Dan Mullen, year 2 (11-6) · Allegiant Stadium · 65,000 · 31,384 avg in 2026
LastL 6–44 at North Texas · Sat Sep 12 · Denver Harris 2 TFL, 7 tackles
Nextat Akron · Sat Sep 26 · time TBA · InfoCision Stadium · first meeting on record · Game preview
Updated Tue Sep 15 · through week 2
| Wk | Date | Us | Opp | Line | Opponent | Result | Record | Conf |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Aug 30 | #91 | #100 | -5✗ | Memphis | L 21–27 139 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 1 | Sep 6 | #91 | #59 | -2.5✓ | @Hawai'i | W 21–6 137 | 1-1 | 1-0 |
| 2 | Sep 12 | #89 | #123 | -3✗ | @North Texas | L 6–44 139 | 1-2 | 1-0 |
| 4 | Sep 26 | #101 | #62 | @Akron | ||||
| 5 | Oct 3 | California | ||||||
| 6 | Oct 10 | North Dakota State | ||||||
| 7 | Oct 17 | @Air Force | ||||||
| 9 | Nov 1 | Northern Illinois | ||||||
| 10 | Nov 8 | Wyoming | ||||||
| 11 | Nov 15 | @New Mexico | ||||||
| 12 | Nov 22 | @San José State | ||||||
| 13 | Nov 29 | Nevada |
| Date | Opp | Result | Yds | TO | TOP | EPA/play | Success% | Explosive% | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 12 | @North Texas | L 6–44 | 301 | 4 | 27:45 | -0.148 | 35.6% | 74.5% | Season-low EPA/play |
| Sep 6 | @Hawai'i | W 21–6 | 364 | 0 | 27:55 | +0.156 | 37.5% | 141.9% | Season-high EPA/play |
| Aug 30 | Memphis | L 21–27 | 460 | 0 | 35:09 | +0.091 | 33.3% | 146.1% | Most explosive |
| Season average (3 games) | 375 | 1.3 | +0.033 | 35.5% | 120.8% | ||||
UNLV is the desert program that spent decades as a punchline and is now the best team in the Mountain West that can't win the Mountain West — three straight title-game losses to Boise State, all in the brightest lights in college football.
Rebels fans are tired of being treated as a novelty act — the casino-town team nobody took seriously. They'll tell you UNLV has been one of the best stories in the Group of Five for three years runnin…
The season in chapters
What fans said
Real posts from the day of the game, chosen by community score · usernames not shown
What it is like to watch them2025 · 10-4 · last season
✓ measured from 14 games · ranks are among Mountain West teams the same season
Recent form · last 10 games · incl. 2025
Cold. 5-5 over the last 10, and lost the last one.
He could have gotten better, a couple reads, maybe make them a little bit quicker. Overall, I think he played very well throughout the entire course of the game
Next Sep 26
vs Akron · away
~ our read on style
Market outlook
Sportsbook consensus · best odds across multiple books · 2026-09-14
the open questiondo the new coordinators fit the roster?
Dan Mullen begins at UNLV with a 10-4 record under Barry Odom, but the coordinator change and uneasy fan belief signal early challenges in reshaping the program's identity.
our readdeveloping
Jaylon Glover sees a real spike in usage once the game is out of reach, and his efficiency in competitive snaps sits below the position baseline -- the numbers lean on the opponent giving up.
our readdeveloping
Troy Omeire is a real deep-ball threat -- a high share of his targets come on throws past the sticks, and he catches those deep shots at a plus rate.
our readdeveloping
UNLV Mountain West championship odds lengthened — implied probability moved from 27.8% to 22.9% (-4.9pp) between Sep 13 and Sep 14, 2026 (tier C).
our readbackground
Jackson Arnold (QB) arrives at UNLV as the headline addition in a top-5 Mountain West portal class — Mullen's first full roster rebuild starts with zero returning QB production.
our readfront page
Outcome band · UNLV · 2026
Floor, base and ceiling come from the season-path projection, which plays out conference title games and the CFP — so a ceiling can run past 12 games.
UNLV: coordinator change reshaping a unit.
The optimistic read: momentum, and the 'this is real' takes.
The analytical counter: rankings, results, and 'the hype is ahead of the tape' takes.
This event was in 223 of 823 board posts (27%) over the last 60 days — a fanbase consumed by it. Fan text shown verbatim, attributed to the community not the individual poster.
Board health this week (71 posts): 11% positive · 51% neutral · 38% negative. Team-level weekly mood — not specific to this event. The boards ≠ the fanbase: a self-selected vocal slice.
Fan mood index · most recent r/cfb data
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UNLV is the Mountain West program whose 2024 11-3 + Mountain West championship game under Barry Odom + Allegiant Stadium NFL-stadium-shared identity define what Las-Vegas-football looks like.
The program ledger
since 2025UNLV Week 0 opener vs Memphis
Week 0 road opener at a top-25 Memphis program is the earliest possible gut-check for Mullen's rebuild — CB depth at #63 nationally gets stress-tested before the Mountain West schedule even starts.
UNLV QB competition ongoing
Mullen inherited a QB room with no clear answer and a fanbase expecting a winner — fall camp battle is the whole offseason story in one depth chart spot.
Mountain West title odds: +260 → +337 (▼4.9pp implied)
Mountain west title odds dropped 4.9pp without an obvious public catalyst.
Top 3 commits
Recruiting Footprint · 2026
CA leads the 2026 class with 11 commits. National footprint reaching 10 states.
Where they recruit · 2023-2026
92 signees across 17 states, 2023-2026. CA leads the pull.
Miles from home · 2026 roster
The median UNLV player grew up 608 miles from campus.
Half this roster came from closer than that; half came from farther.
Straight-line distance from each player's listed hometown to Allegiant Stadium. Hometowns are placed at city-centroid precision, not street address — fine at this scale, but a player's true door-to-door number can differ by a few miles. 105 of 108 listed players have a geocoded hometown. Source: CFBD roster hometowns.
Top community posts · last 12 months · r/cfb
The bounces haven't gone their way on their own fumbles: 50% recovered, vs. ~54% expected.
3 of 6 own fumbles recovered themselves, 2026 only.
Deflections without payoff: 6% of disrupted passes intercepted, vs. ~18% league-wide.
1 interceptions of 16 disrupted passes (15 deflected, 1 intercepted), 2026 only.
Roughly even on flags: 21 penalties committed vs. 23 drawn on opponents.
198 penalty yards committed vs. 202 drawn on opponents, 2026 season total.
Outcome band · UNLV · 2026
Recruiting Footprint · 2026