Nevada football still searching for confidence-inspiring win

(Photo: Andrew Nelles / Tennessean.com)Jay Norvell said something interesting a couple of days before his team’s game against Vanderbilt last week.

In order to have team confidence you need to first have individual confidence first, the Wolf Pack coach said during his weekly press conference.

Nevada then went out and got smashed by Vanderbilt, 41-10, with no phase of the team functioning especially well. That’s not exactly how you build confidence, and a lack of confidence has been an earmark of the Wolf Pack the last couple of seasons. It’s hard to be confident when you’re not winning games.

Here’s an interesting stat: In Nevada’s last 26 contests, it has won back-to-back games only once. And…