Revel in the blitzes

Vandal fans, take a few days to truly enjoy tonight's blitz-fest while you can, because you might not see anything like that for a while.

The University of Idaho defense won't often this season be able to take as many chances as it did during tonight's 30-7 thrashing of UNLV. But it was the perfect gameplan against this particular opponent, an offense that presents less of a precision passing threat than Ryan Leaf. Present-day Ryan Leaf.

And it was fun, wasn't it? The defense brought pressure like it was going out of style — like they'd bought a Costco-sized vat that was three days past its expiration date. Aaron Lavarias led the charge, as a senior should, with two of the team's six sacks. And the Rebels were held to a paltry 187 total yards.

UI and UNLV are thought by many to be ho-hum members of their respective conferences, the Western Athletic Conference and the Mountain West. On Saturday the Vandals firmly suggested that maybe only half of that assumption is true.