UNLV-Hawaii betting: Expect offensive fireworks in Honolulu

A nonaccomplishment successful a shot crippled seldom comes down to 1 happening oregon 1 moment, and that was surely the lawsuit for UNLV successful its 27-21 season-opening decision astatine the hands of Memphis astatine Allegiant Stadium.

The biggest series whitethorn person travel astir halftime. The Rebels had first-and-goal astatine the Memphis 4 with a accidental to instrumentality a 21-7 pb into the locker room, but moved backward 11 yards and yet missed a 32-yard tract goal. Less than 2 minutes into the 2nd half, Memphis struck for a 48-yard touchdown pass.

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UNLV answered that score, but Memphis violative coordinator Kevin Decker made galore adjustments and UNLV antiaircraft coordiantor Paul Guenther didn’t marque capable of them. The Rebels were outscored 17-7 successful the 3rd 4th and 20-7 successful the 2nd fractional overall.

The wounded suffered by Austin Boyd was different large turning point. As Adam Hill noted, the Rebels had 12 plays for minus-14 yards, including 4 sacks, aft Boyd’s exit. Unfortunately, Boyd is retired this week.

Hawaii is besides looking to bounce backmost aft a Week 0 loss, arsenic the Rainbow Warriors fell 37-27 to Stanford successful Palo Alto. The last people was a small misleading, though, arsenic Hawaii scored 20 of its points successful the 4th fourth aft backmost Micah Alejado and the discourtesy took a portion to get going.

Without wide receiverr Pofele Ashlock, the Rainbows punted connected six of their 7 first-half possessions. They did yet find immoderate bushed and had a accidental to necktie oregon triumph the crippled late, but a 31-yard scoop-and-score connected the last thrust ended those hopes.

In different words, some teams had immoderate large mistakes and were impacted by cardinal absences en way to starting the 2026 play 0-1. One volition get backmost to .500 this week and 1 volition not, arsenic UNLV heads to Honolulu arsenic a field-goal favorite. More importantly, 1 of these teams volition statesman Mountain West Conference play astatine 1-0.

Jackson Arnold’s stat enactment against Memphis looked beauteous awesome connected the surface, arsenic helium threw for 291 yards connected 25-of-37 passing with 2 touchdowns and nary interceptions. But helium was besides sacked six times and officially had 21 carries for 54 yards. His longest tally went for 54 yards, meaning his different 20 carries resulted successful a nett of 0 yards.

Jai’Den Thomas had 12 carries for conscionable 44 yards, portion backup QB Alex Orji lone got 1 transportation for 2 yards. Thomas did pb the squad with six catches for 54 yards, but the world is that Arnold held connected to the shot excessively agelong and UNLV didn’t get capable of a propulsion astatine the enactment of scrimmage.

Boyd’s lack surely won’t help, though it should beryllium easier to set with a afloat week of signifier than it was trying to scramble for solutions during the Memphis game. The interest is that UNLV wasn’t moving the shot peculiarly good adjacent earlier Boyd went out, and the walk extortion wholly fell isolated aft helium was sidelined.

It is casual to harp connected the pre-Boyd and post-Boyd play-by-play from the Memphis game, but Hawaii failed to grounds a sack against Stanford and allowed 173 rushing yards. That makes Boyd’s lack a small tougher to quantify successful this peculiar matchup.

The bully quality for the Rebs is that Hawaii didn’t precisely predominate the trenches against Stanford. The Rainbow Warriors averaged conscionable 2.1 yards per carry, portion Alejado needed 51 walk attempts to propulsion for 272 yards.

Hawaii finished astatine lone 4.75 yards per play and was outgained by much than 2 yards per play. Frankly, the Rainbow Warriors were fortunate to inactive person a accidental to necktie oregon triumph the crippled connected the last thrust due to the fact that they were beauteous severely outplayed successful the container score.

On the different hand, Hawaii presents a antithetic situation for the UNLV defense. Alejado threw for much than 3,100 yards past play astatine Hawaii, portion Memphis backmost Marcus Stokes was playing astatine West Florida. This is simply a measurement up successful people astatine backmost for a Rebels defence that started good against Memphis, forcing 3 consecutive punts, but past allowed points connected 5 of the Tigers’ adjacent 7 possessions.

Ultimately, this is simply a pugnacious handicap due to the fact that determination are morganatic questions connected some sides. UNLV has to fig retired however to support Arnold and make much connected the crushed without Boyd, portion Hawaii has to beryllium that the fourth-quarter violative surge against Stanford was much typical than the archetypal 3 quarters.

Much similar Week 0, though, it’s the implicit that has my attraction astatine 55.5. Points were near connected the tract by some teams successful that Memphis-UNLV game, and the dilatory violative commencement kept the last people down arsenic well.

With Alejado susceptible of investigating the UNLV secondary and Arnold showing immoderate playmaking quality of his own, I’m expecting immoderate violative fireworks successful Honolulu.