LAS VEGAS >> UNLV’s Jose Pizano made a game-winning field goal with no time left on the clock to defeat Colorado State, 25-23, Saturday at Allegiant Stadium.

Pizano kicked his sixth field goal of the game, a 28-yarder, to end a back-and-forth battle between the teams’ kickers that developed in the game’s final minutes.

After Pizano had kicked a field goal with 1:27 to go to give the Rebels a 22-20 lead, CSU’s Jordan Noyes kicked a 55-yarder to give the Rams the lead with 44 seconds left. However, that was enough time for UNLV to drive down and kick the game-winner.

CSU dropped to 3-4 on the season and 1-2 in the Mountain West with the loss — a game in which it was outscored 13-0 in the third quarter and 22-10 in the second half.

The Rams held a 10-point halftime lead, but the Rebels wasted little time erasing it.

A pair of field goals by Pizano, one from 43 yards with 11:10 left in the third quarter and another from 25 yards with 6:05 left in the period, cut the Rams’ lead to 13-9.

Three minutes after the Rebels’ second field goal of the period, they scored their first touchdown of the game. Donavyn Lester ran it in from 11 yards out to give UNLV its first lead at 16-13, with 3:06 to go in the quarter.

UNLV extended its lead in the fourth quarter. Pizano kicked his fourth field goal, a 34-yarder to make it 19-13 with 7:36 left.

The Rams retook the lead on a 20-yard touchdown pass from Brayden Fowler-Nicolosi to Justus Ross-Simmons with 3:49 remaining, but there was still plenty of time on the clock for both teams.

Pizano was good from 45 yards out with 1:27 left to give the Rebels the lead. UNLV then completed some big passes to get in position for Pizano’s game-winner, countering the long Noyes make.

Fowler-Nicolosi finished the game completing 21 of 32 passes for 235 yards and one touchdown. For the first time this season, he didn’t throw an interception. Vann Schield led CSU rushing attack with 90 yards on the ground, including a 52-yard burst, his longest of the season.

CSU will return home next Saturday to host Air Force at Canvas Stadium.

No. 1 Colorado Mines 42, Black Hills St. 17 >> Trailing at halftime for the first time in RMAC play this season, the Orediggers scored 28 unanswered points over the final two quarters to beat Black Hills State in Spearfish, S.D.

QB John Matocha threw three of his five touchdown passes in the second half — two going to Max McLeod — and finished with 323 yards on 23-of-35 passing. The effort pushed Matocha past former Oredigger Justin Dvorak at the top of the RMAC’s all-time total offensive yards leaderboard, with the senior now at 14,834 career yards after his 50th start for Mines (8-0, 6-0 RMAC).

McLeod had three touchdown grabs total and nine catches for 101 yards, while Flynn Schiele hauled in four passes for 96 yards.

After going down 17-14 in the first two quarters, the Mines defense made a second-half adjustment to contain Black Hills quarterback Tanner Clarkson and shut out the Yellow Jackets (4-4, 3-3 RMAC) the rest of the way.