"Drivers, start your engines!" UNLV Football's head coach Barry Odom will be the grand marshal for the South Point 400 at Las Vegas Motor Speedway. UNLV (4-1/1-0) football closed its non-conference schedule with a heartbreaking 44-41 overtime loss to Syracuse.

To absolutely no one’s surprise, the UNLV women were chosen as the preseason favorites in the Mountain West poll, which was revealed at Wednesday’s conference media day in Las Vegas. UNLV went 30-3 last season and ran up a 17-1 mark in the Mountain West,

Well, this is awkward. San Diego State is picked to finish fourth in the Mountain West men’s basketball preseason media poll announced Thursday morning, the first time in Brian Dutcher’s eight seasons as head coach that the Aztecs haven’t been first or second — and only the second time in the last 17 years they’ve been outside the top three.