For starters, something easily digestible. Fresno State averaged 5.9 yards per play in a wrenching loss at Nevada and that’s a solid number – in 2012 and ’13, when the Bulldogs were winning back-to-back Mountain West Conference championships, there were 12 games they didn’t get there and it is in fact by the tiniest of margins their best output against a FBS opponent in 24 games, since averaging 6.3 yards per play in an overtime loss at UNLV in 2014.
The only time they were close – really close – was last season in a victory over the Rebels.