Fresno State Football: Pat Hill Talks Nevada at Press Conference

The Fresno State Bulldogs are 2-0 in the Western Athletic Conference.  They currently share first place with the Nevada Wolf Pack, who are also undefeated in the WAC.

As they say in boxing, “Somebody’s O has to go."

The Bulldogs will travel to Reno to to take on the Wolf Pack this Saturday for sole possession of first place in the conference.

“It should be a heck of a football game,” said Coach Hill in anticipation of Saturday's’s matchup.  Is Saturday’s game a must-win?  Hill thinks so.  “This will be a great game this weekend, both teams will be in a must win situation,” said Hill.

Saturday's game in Reno is definitely a big game against a good opponent, but Coach Hill doesn’t seem to think that Nevada is the only team to worry about.  “I think the conference is really really balanced,” said Hill about the talent level in the WAC.

For the first time since 2007, the Bulldogs will face a Nevada team that doesn’t include “Mr. run all over the place” Colin Kaepernick at quarterback.  “Offensively they’re still rolling up numbers, they get big yards, they get huge yards”, said Hill about life without Kaepernick at Nevada.

Big yards indeed!  The Wolf Pack averages 239.5 yards through the air and 248.8 on the ground.  The latter is good enough to rank 10th in the country.

The defense shouldn’t be overlooked either.  “I think Nevada is very very improved on defense,” warned Hill.

Nevada’s defense gives up 25.8 points per game, which lands them almost right in the middle at 58th as far as the rankings are concerned.

With the way San Jose State has Been able to “cowboy up” this year, beating Hawaii and darn near beating Nevada, Pat Hill is definitely onto something by talking about parity in the WAC.

This Saturday is only another step towards the Bulldogs' goal of a WAC championship; there are plenty of games left, so the boring mantra of “one game at a time” has to be repeated over and over until the end of the season.

The quotes for this article were gathered by Gean May at Pat Hill’s press conference in Fresno California on 10/17/2011.