UNLV at Nevada: Wolf Pack ready for Friday night 'state championship' game vs. Rebels

The Nevada and UNLV football teams last met at Mackay Stadium on Nov. 30, 2019, finishing out a dramatic afternoon with an unfortunate large-scale brawl in the south end zone.

Since that day — which finished with an overtime win for UNLV — the Wolf Pack and Rebels have gone in entirely different directions. In fact, UNLV has not won a football game since.

While Nevada has played in two bowl games and won 12 of its 16 games since that 2019 game, UNLV has lost 13 straight, all under head coach Marcus Arroyo, a former rising-star coordinator at Oregon. The Rebels were 0-6 in last season’s COVID-altered landscape — getting outscored by an eye-raising 228-104 and giving up 34 or more points in…