Coach Dan Mullen and the UNLV New-Look football team survived their first major test of the season, defeating Big Ten Foe Ucla 30-23 on Saturday evening in Las Vegas in the only match of the regular season of Rebels against a Power 4 opponent this year.
The defensive back Aamaris Brown intercepted a deflected pass of the quarter-rear of the UCLA Nico Iamaleava with 52 seconds to play, ending the offer of return of the Bruins while sealing a declaration of declaration for the rebels (3-0).
The UNLV managed to build an advance of 23-0 in the first half, but granted 13 unanswered points before answering with a timely touchdown trip at the start of the fourth quarter, finally providing a sufficient cushion to take it to the finish line.
The quarter-arrière Anthony Colandrea found Var’Keyes Gumms for an end of the touch of 17 yards with 12:04 to play on an impressive six-game touched and 75 yards. The highlight of the journey was the race of 33 yards of Colarndrea which brought a LLV from the midfield to the red zone.
Iamaleava and UCLA (0-2) responded to the UNLV’s response with a 30 yards touchdown, again reducing the advance at 10 points while the additional point has set the score at 30-20.
It appeared that UCLA quickly struck Paydirt by intercepting a poorly won Colandrea pass and turning it back for a touchdown, but the referees judged that the quarter-back of the UNLV was broken before launching the ball.
The Bruins managed to walk on the field on their next possession, but a drop in the goal area forced them to settle for the goal of Mateen Bhaghani to 33 yards to reduce the advance of the UNLV to 30-23. Their last journey seemed to equalize the match, but Iamaleava, a premature incident, spoiled it.
The UCLA second half’s second half started with a 12-game yard trip which ate the first 7:12 of the third quarter. The March culminated with a touch of touch of 4 yards of Iamaleava to the tight winger Noah Fox-Flores to bring the UCLA in the 13 points, 23-10.
After having forced a three-past-out on the first offensive training of the UNLV of the second half, the UCLA has again market on the ground for a 144-year-old ride which ended with a goal on the 35-yard of Bhaghani to reduce the advance of the UNLV to 23-13 while consuming 6.50 am. In total, the UCLA maintained possession from 2:02 pm in the third quarter only.
The UNLV started the early score on a basket of 50 yards from Ramon Villela with 8:01 to play in the first quarter, while the opening of the rebels ate almost seven minutes of clock. After the first of many UNLV defense judgments, the Rebels walked on the ground and closed a quarter on a pass of a touch of 21 yards of Colarndrea at the end tight Nick Elskins to increase by 10-0.
While the defense remained unusually solid against Iamaleava and the Bruins offensive, the UNLV offensive continued to produce. Colandrea found Troy Omeire, who made an impressive outcome in the goal area for a touchdown who put a LLV 17-0 after the additional point with 5:39 to play in the first half.
The hot start of the UNLV continued on his last half-time training, while the ball carrier Keyvone Lee capped a trek of 44 yards of five games with a postponement of 19 yards.
Bhaghani started a 33 yards basket with 4 seconds to play in the first half to reduce the advance of the UNLV to 23-3.
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