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Lobos Open Mountain West Play in Vegas vs. UNLV

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ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. --- The New Mexico Lobos head into Saturday's Mountain West opening clash with UNLV without its starting quarterback, coming off a game in which the team felt they let get away against an like-caliber FBS team. It enters Saturday with a junior college transfer quarterback who started out at an Autonomous 5 school. Funny thing ... UNLV can type that exact paragraph.

It's a matchup of two similar teams in similar situations, both wanting to jump out to a 1-0 conference start as the New Mexico Lobos (2-2, 0-0 MW) and the UNLV Rebels (2-2, 0-0 MW) meet at Sam Boyd Stadium in Las Vegas, Nevada on Saturday at 1 p.