Read live coverage of the Battle for the Fremont Cannon from Emerson Marcus.

A rivalry game in college football is a season all its own. Records and statistics don’t mean anything. This week, Nevada and UNLV will battle for the Fremont Cannon and state pride. The Rebels are coming off two consecutive overtime victories, while Nevada has steamed for two weeks with a 69-17 loss still fresh in its mind. Will the Wolf Pack learn from its mistakes and use the loss as motivation, or will the Rebels prove their legitimacy and take back the cannon?

Nevada students, this weekend when you travel to Las Vegas, try to avoid the glitz and ditz of a city fallen off the materialistic cliff. It won’t be easy to hold back your anger and not punch the guy spouting douche bag comments at you across the beer pong table after the game.

Wolf Pack running back Vai Taua, who was third on the depth chart at the beginning of the season, will now lead Nevada’s depleted rushing game.

The Pistol offense is very innovative and schools across the country are copying it, with good reason. But with today’s high-tech offenses, programs around the nation are using a little of everything: a little of the Pistol, a little of the spread, mixed with option-reads and a strong vertical game. That is what Missouri brought Saturday.

COLUMBIA, Mo. — Missouri’s offense was so successful Saturday against Nevada that it declined a 15-yard pass interference call in favor of an 11-yard completion.

Nevada (1-2) will have a bye-week to regroup from suffering two major injuries in the offensive backfield. The Wolf Pack lost senior running back Luke Lippincott last week to a season-ending anterior crutiate ligament injury against Texas Tech.

Nevada students can’t get too spoiled, though, because before the Wolf Pack’s three-game winning streak Nevada had a four-game losing run. The Wolf Pack had a five-game winning streak before that, presenting a trend of consecutive wins in the rivalry.

Nevada didn’t play like it did Sept. 6 against Texas Tech. The Wolf Pack offense was slow and the defense couldn’t get a hand on Heisman hopeful Chase Daniel. Nevada will now go into its bye-week angry, upset and exhausted after being outplayed by a team with a much better offensive scheme. When asked what the Wolf Pack had to work on this week, coach Chris Ault said, “Pick something.” The Nevada Sagebrush has decided to do just that.

Nevada’s defense couldn’t counter the plethora of weapons Saturday on the side of the No. 6 Missouri Tigers in the Wolf Pack’s 69-17 loss.

Check back here for a live play-by-play blog of the Nevada vs. Missouri game!

The telecast of Nevada’s match up with Missouri Saturday has been changed from Pay Per View to a national audience on the Fox Sports Network, the Big 12 conference announced Thursday.

Devastated.

That was the word coach Chris Ault used to describe his feelings Saturday after losing running back Luke Lippincott for the rest of the season.

Nevada executed its game plan.
The Wolf Pack beat Texas Tech on total yards (488 to 421), controlled the game clock (35:54 to 23:13) and showcased a defensive backfield that exceeded all expectations.
So what went wrong?

The University of Nevada, Reno announced earlier this month that it would honor former Wolf Pack player Marion Motley throughout the 2008 season.

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