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FORT COLLINS, Colo. — UNLV came here in 2002 with a backup quarterback to play a season finale as a 17-point underdog.
The outcome in Colorado State's favor seemed so certain that a postgame ceremony was planned for the Mountain West to award the conference championship trophy that the Rams already had secured.
That ceremony took place, but under a considerably more somber tone after the Rebels defeated the 16th-ranked Rams 36-33.
Colorado State has since exacted revenge every time the Rebels have returned to Hughes Stadium, not only winning the next five meetings there but convincingly in four of them.
