UNLV vs. North Texas predictions: RJ staffers pick winner of Saturday’s game

Las Vegas Review-Journal reporters and editors marque their picks for the Rebels’ Mountain West crippled astatine North Texas connected Saturday:

Ed Graney

UNLV bushed writer/columnist (1-1)

Do you retrieve the portion astir UNLV having a sneaky pugnacious schedule? This is 1 of the reasons why. North Texas and each its caller faces, contempt the last score, outgained Indiana past week and, possibly much impressively, totaled much rushing yards than the defending nationalist champion. Travel mightiness beryllium an contented present for UNLV, which had to marque the Hawaii travel past week and present instantly hits the roadworthy again.

North Texas 27, UNLV 24

Donovan Hicks

UNLV backup writer (1-1)

The Mean Green underwent important changes this offseason, bringing successful a caller coaching unit and implicit 70 caller players, but they held their ain against the defending nationalist champion Indiana Hoosiers successful Week 1. For a UNLV discourtesy that has struggled to make consistency astatine times done its archetypal 2 games, it mightiness beryllium excessively overmuch to flooded successful a roadworthy matchup that volition travel down to the wire.

North Texas 31, UNLV 24

Adam Hill

Raiders bushed writer/columnist (1-1)

The Rebels bounced backmost connected the Island past week, buoyed mostly by a tremendous antiaircraft effort. The discourtesy inactive isn’t rather up to the level expected from a Dan Mullen team, however. Jackson Arnold has shown immoderate flashes, but determination isn’t capable consistency, and the violative enactment hasn’t been capable to make capable abstraction for what should beryllium an explosive tally crippled to get going. Most importantly, the question is conscionable brutal.

North Texas 20, UNLV 16

Sam Gordon

Raiders bushed writer/columnist (0-2)

UNLV’s defence travels again other its dependable offense.

UNLV 27, North Texas 17

Alex Wright

High schoolhouse bushed writer (0-2)

While UNLV’s triumph successful Hawaii was a much-needed result, it wasn’t a convincing victory. UNLV’s violative enactment concerns could hinder Jackson Arnold’s quality to find a bushed and Jai’Den Thomas’ effectiveness. The Rebels person different pugnacious roadworthy travel against a North Texas squad that should beryllium motivated aft a respectable showing against Indiana past week.

North Texas 28, UNLV 24

Bill Bradley

Sports Editor (0-2)

On 1 hand, the Mean Green are coming disconnected a 12-2 play and they didn’t look excessively atrocious successful a 52-16 nonaccomplishment astatine Indiana (seriously). On the different hand, astir of that 12-2 squad bolted with manager Eric Morris for Oklahoma State. The deficiency of familiarity volition wound them early, and the Rebels volition rotation to a victory.

UNLV 41, North Texas 14

Richard Bush

Assistant Sports Editor (1-1)

UNLV‘s question docket is beauteous brutal with the turnaround from Hawaii past week to Texas this week. And North Texas is simply a pugnacious opponent, adjacent if the Mean Green mightiness not beryllium arsenic bully this play arsenic past year. But the prime of the Rebels’ play hinges connected this game, truthful here’s a telephone for a choky UNLV victory.

UNLV 28, North Texas 24