By coaching UNLV to its best record since 2003, Mike Sanford appears to have guaranteed his return for a fifth season.
UNLV Football
The national glare on college football is its usual powerful November self, what with more BCS updates than holiday sales and those in South Bend buying out the town’s supply of toilet paper to wrap around Charlie Weis’ house and trees and car and anything else connected with the besieged and yet handsomely compensated Notre Dame coach.
SAN DIEGO — A team that loses to San Diego State probably doesn’t deserve to go to a bowl anyway.
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SAN DIEGO — UNLV football coach Mike Sanford spent part of this week attempting to build up San Diego State by disputing the severity of the Aztecs’ injury situation.
Karen Denton rushed onto the Sam Boyd Stadium field looking for her son. She found Jon Denton and kissed the UNLV freshman quarterback through the front of his helmet.
The two compete in the November chill of football season and the triple-digit July heat of summer conditioning.
The bowl scenarios are so numerous, UNLV football coach Mike Sanford can’t wrap his mind around them.
It will come Saturday evening at San Diego State, the most significant football game UNLV will have played in eight years. But regardless if the Rebels win or lose against the lowly Aztecs, whether they become bowl eligible or finish two games under .500, Mike Sanford’s future as head coach should be even more solidified come Sunday morning.
A fake punt at Brigham Young was a disaster and helped cost UNLV the game. On Thursday, a fake punt might have saved the Rebels’ season.
The ball was sailing toward the end zone and the waiting hands of David Leonard, and it appeared Wyoming would rally to catch UNLV in the fourth quarter Thursday.
It is in their hands now for the first time in what seems an eternity. Eight years, really. But what a long, painful, frustrating eight it must have been for those who follow UNLV football. Think of the world’s incessant wait for Tom Cruise to take up scientology full time and try ruling the universe in anonymity. That long.
A struggling Wyoming football team routing San Diego State 35-10 nearly two weeks ago made sense — the Aztecs are that bad. Trying to figure out the Cowboys’ 13-7 victory at Tennessee on Saturday? Not so easy.