I’d like to think that of the reasons the MWC, in its prime when it had Utah, TCU, and BYU, didn’t get AQ status was partly because its bottom, which was definitively UNLV and UNM football at the time, was beyond atrociously bad. Heck, back then, Colorado State and Wyoming weren’t always much to look at, either.

Poster’s got it: Las Vegas is already PAC turf. Going east with Utah and Colorado sandwiched Nevada in a way that doesn’t make it a unique college sports island that pushes any sort of footprint, even if Vegas is looking like a national transplant city.

UNLV football stinks. A nice stadium and arena are great, but you don’t need the school to get the conference to play there, I’m sure.