Jason Thomas remembers that football season well.

The one in which UNLV went 8-5 and beat Arkansas in the Las Vegas Bowl.

The one in which he was game’s Most Valuable Player after throwing three touchdowns.

Thomas remembers what it meant to UNLV then and now.

“I feel like I’m part of a team that’s building a house,” Thomas said. “You come in and might lay some electrical or do some plumbing. You’re not part of the guys putting up the framing, but when the house is done and you drive by it, you know you played a part.

“That’s how I feel when I look at our program now. If I wasn’t able to get us over the hump, I know we started some momentum. We put UNLV on the map in a way with the success we had.”

Thomas and other members of that 2000 team will be honored Saturday when the unbeaten R

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