This is when you know UNLV football players have come together as a team.

When you face this kind of resiliency and still come out on top.

When there isn’t a defensive stop in sight and you find a way to win.

This is the moment when more than 60 new faces made quite a statement.

You know — after all the lunacy.

The team that returned the fewest number of starters nationally from a season ago survived Air Force 51-48 on Saturday before a homecoming crowd of 32,932 at Allegiant Stadium.

Bet on it. Those who came certainly got their money’s worth and then some.

A 6-0 start

It could have gone the other way, oh, several times. Air Force was relentless in pursuit of an upset. But as shaky as things have been at times during UNLV’s 6-0 start to the season, one thing that remains solid is

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