Well, both offenses looked good.

Let me tell you why this game was so good.

Both offenses played at a high level and the our defense when faced with adversity came through and won the game. Both sides of the ball had some ugly moments, but in the end the offense drove down the field, scored and added the two point conversion. It was left up to our defense to make a play to win the game for us.

I was encouraged because we didn’t rely on our big name defensive players to make the needed plays. In the end Matt Putnam, Andrew Rich and Colby Clawson made the plays we needed in order to pull off the win.

Like I thought Harvey had a solid day with 19 rushes for 84 yards, and Fui added to the rushing total with 72 yards on 9 carries.

Let’s all be honest UNLV is a good team. If they can get their defense to consistently play as well as they did today they will end up winning some of these close games.

In all, it was a well deserved, tough victory. I would of liked to see our offense drive the nail in the coffin after the big fourth down stop by Colby Clawson, but we sputtered and only got a field goal.

I do think our team took a half step forward today. Different guys are starting to step up and make plays and we are beginning to develop the character and identity that we will need down the stretch. What is our identity?

We are a team that can take a teams best shot and still come up with the plays necessary to win the game. I am excited to see our team win on the last play of the game. Our offense needed to go what they needed to do and our defense came up with the plays to win. No matter how hard everyone is on our defense they still made the plays in the crucial situations to win the game.

Our league is tough and it will take another good week of practice to get another road victory.

-Look for the Post Game Wrap-up after the jump and this week Staff will also be adding his thoughts to the blog with his own post game insights.