Utah Tech Travels to Las Vegas for Week Two

Utah Tech plays at Allegiant Stadium in Las Vegas against UNLV this Saturday.

Here's an excerpt from the game preview press release from UT Athletics Media Relations (full article)

FOR STARTERS: • Utah Tech opens its six-game road slate with a quick trip down I-15 to Las Vegas this Saturday to take on 2023 Mountain West Conference runner-up and Guaranteed Rate Bowl game participant UNLV.

Saturday's game will be the first-ever meeting between the Trailblazers and Rebels on the gridiron.

When the Trailblazers take the field on Saturday afternoon at Allegiant Stadium, it will be the first time the program will have played a game in an NFL stadium. In addition, the 65,000-seat stadium will be the largest venue Utah Tech Athletics as a whole will have competed in.

Saturday's game will mark the first time the Trailblazers have ever played a game in the state of Nevada. However this isn't the first time Utah Tech has played in "Las Vegas." During its final four seasons of NCAA Division II play and as a member of the Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference, Utah Tech faced conference foe Western New Mexico in Las Vegas...New Mexico (2017 and 2019).

Saturday's game at UNLV will be the fourth time Utah Tech has faced an NCAA D-I Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS) opponent since the program transitioned to D-I FCS status in 2020-21. The game also marks the second-straight season the Trailblazers will have played a MWC opponent.

Last season Utah Tech ventured up to Fort Collins for a road date at Colorado State (9/30/23). The Blazers hung with the Rams for the majority of the game, and trailed 21-20 midway through the third quarter. However CSU would go on to score 20 unanswered the rest of the way to claim a 41-20 home victory.