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2024 Nevada Football Prediction & Preview With Betting Odds, Schedule, Key Returners & Outlook

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2024 Nevada Football Prediction & Preview With Betting Odds, Schedule, Key Returners & Outlook


Nevada had a nice run going until the last two years. The Wolf Pack had four consecutive winning campaigns and four straight bowl berths before going 2-10 in each of the past two years.

Those last two seasons were all Ken Wilson had to be the head coach before being fired. Taking over is Jeff Choate, who was Texas’ co-defensive coordinator and inside linebackers coach the previous three seasons. His other college head coaching job came at Montana State, where he was 28-22 in four seasons and led the Bobcats to two FCS playoff appearances from 2016-2019.

This is a team made up of many players who started their careers at other schools. Now this transient squad will attempt to get back to its winning ways with a new coach. 

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Nevada’s odds to win the Mountain West are +25000, via BetMGM.

Nevada’s win total and Over/Under is 2.5, with Under 2.5 at -135 and Over 2.5 at +110.

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8/24 vs SMU

8/31 at Troy

9/7 vs Georgia Southern

9/14 at Minnesota

9/21 vs Eastern Washington

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10/5 at San Jose State

10/12 vs Oregon State

10/19 vs Fresno State

10/26 at Hawaii

11/2 vs Colorado State

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11/9 at Boise State

11/23 vs Air Force

11/30 at UNLV

Bold indicates Mountain West contests

2023 All-Mountain West Honorable Mention

LB Tongiaki Mateialona

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LB Drue Watts

OL Isaiah World


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Many potential key players for this season have come from the transfer portal either this year or seasons past. The two main competitors for the quarterback job are Brendon Lewis, who began his career at Colorado and is entering his second season at Nevada, and Chubba Purdy, who had stints at Florida State and Nebraska. 

This past season, Lewis appeared in 12 games for Nevada, making 10 starts. He completed 131 of 236 passes (55%) for 1,313 yards, two touchdowns, and six interceptions. He also rushed for 495 yards and four touchdowns. Purdy spent two seasons at Florida State before playing the last two at Nebraska. He appeared in 12 games for Nebraska, making four starts in those two seasons.

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Leading the running game is Sean Dollars, who began his career at Oregon but led the Wolf Pack in rushing last year during his first season in Reno. He rushed for 527 yards and six touchdowns. 

One of this year’s expected top receivers is Cortez Braham, who began his career at Hutchinson Community College and transferred from West Virginia. 

Tight end Andrew Savalinaea joins the team after spending his first two years at Florida. 

Left tackle Isaiah World has started 22 games over the past two years and heads up the offensive line.

Two others who have been with the Nevada program for a long time are linebackers Jrue Watts and Tongiaki Mateialona, who are both third-year starters. 

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One of the expected top defensive players will be sixth-year defensive end Henry Ikahihifo. He spent his first two seasons in 2019 and 2020 at Nevada as a tight end before moving to defensive end in his one season at the College of Canyons. He also played defensive end in his one season at California in 2022 before rejoining Nevada and redshirting last year.

Another expected key defensive contributor will be cornerback Kitan Crawford, who spent the past four seasons at Texas where he appeared in 46 games.

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I predict Nevada won’t win the Mountain West title and will win two games. 

Even if Nevada wins twice, it likely has to be done in the first 10 games because the final three are against Boise State, Air Force, and UNLV. For Nevada to earn two wins, it would have to beat FCS Eastern Washington. Then its two games against Sun Belt teams (Troy and Georgia Southern) won’t be easy. Other Mountain West teams Nevada could defeat are Hawaii and San Jose State. The margin for error is slim even for two wins.

If the offense improves after averaging just 17.3 points per game, Nevada could exceed these expectations, but the first season of the Choate regime may not look too different results-wise from Nevada’s previous two years. 

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Court OK’s counting late-arriving mail ballots in Nevada, 29 other states

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LAS VEGAS (KTNV) — Nevada’s laws allowing the counting of mail-in ballots that arrive up to four days after Election Day — so long as they are postmarked by that date — is constitutional under a Monday ruling from the U.S. Supreme Court.

In a 5-4 ruling, justices upheld a challenge to a Mississippi law that’s similar to Nevada’s statute. Justice Amy Coney Barrett and Chief Justice John Roberts joined with the court’s three liberal members, Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan and Katanji Brown Jackson, to uphold the law.

Conservatives Samuel Alito, Clarence Thomas, Brett Kavanaugh and Neil Gorsuch dissented.

The ruling affects 30 states, all of which allow some ballots received after Election Day to be counted. That includes Nevada, which allows ballots postmarked by Election Day to be received and counted up to four days later, and ballots without a postmark to be received and counted up to three days later.

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Plaintiffs in the case — including the Republican National Committee and the Mississippi Republican Party — had contended that federal laws referring to “elections” mean both the casting and counting of ballots, which they said must occur on Election Day.

“The federal election-day statutes do not preempt Mississippi’s law because the defining element of an ‘election’ has always been the electorate’s choice of candidate,” the case summary reads. “And a related federal statute — the Uniformed and Overseas Citizens Absentee Voting Act — confirms that while federal law dictates when ballots must be cast, state law governs when they must be received.”

In Nevada, critics have contended that late-arriving ballots erode confidence in elections, because they delay learning final election results for days and, in some close races, can change the outcome.

Gov. Joe Lombardo has called the weeklong wait for final, unofficial results “a national embarrassment.”

Plaintiffs in the case made similar arguments, but were turned away by the court: “Finally, plaintiffs policy arguments about election integrity and voter confidence are properly addressed to legislatures, not courts,” the case summary reads.

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Several attempts to require ballots to be received by Election Day have been introduced in Nevada’s Legislature, but none have been successful in the Democratically controlled body.

Secretary of State Cisco Aguilar has argued that the overwhelming majority of ballots are in and counted by Election Day, and only the closest races may be changed by late-arriving ballots. He’s advocated for more resources for county clerks and voter registrars to be able to count mail ballots more quickly.

Under the ruling, nothing will change for Nevada voters going to the polls in four months to vote in the November election. But officials still encourage voters to send in their mail ballots early, or to put them in drop boxes at voting centers during early voting or on Election Day.

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One dead, four hospitalized after head-on crash on I-15 in Clark County

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One dead, four hospitalized after head-on crash on I-15 in Clark County


LAS VEGAS (FOX5) — Nevada Highway Patrol responded to a two-vehicle crash on Interstate 15 near mile marker 94 Sunday evening.

The crash was reported at 6:43 p.m. on June 28.

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A passenger sedan and a pickup truck were involved in the crash. One vehicle was traveling southbound, lost control, crossed through the median, and struck the other vehicle head-on in the northbound travel lane.

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One adult male died at the scene. Two people were transported by ground ambulance, and two others were transported by life flight to a local hospital.

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All northbound I-15 travel lanes were closed at mile marker 94, but have since opened as of Sunday night.

Nevada Highway Patrol said further information will be provided following the preliminary investigation.

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