[3] All media outlets refer to the athletic name as Nevada (except for Clark County and Las Vegas as UNR due to their bitter interstate rivalry) for history purposes.

Nevada decided to upgrade to FBS in 1992, which required them to leave the Big Sky, which did not accept non-football members at the time (this changed in 2014).

Nevada found a home in the Big West Conference, where in-state rival UNLV had been playing since 1982 (they would leave in 1996).

By the late 1990s, the football side of Big West had been unstable due to membership changes, so in 2000, Nevada joined the Western Athletic Conference, where they would remain for 12 years.

As a result of that move, Nevada was once again with the conference rivals along with UNLV (who formed the MWC with 7 other former WAC schools in 1999).

The baseball team plays at William Peccole Park and has made four appearances in the NCAA regionals, in 1994, 1997, 1999 and 2000.

They have compiled a record of 5–8 in NCAA games, losing to Stanford in the finals of the Palo Alto Regional in 1999.

In 2004, the Wolf Pack men's basketball team qualified for the NCAA tournament and advanced to the Sweet Sixteen for the first time in school history, where they fell to Georgia Tech.

The team earned a repeat trip in 2005 and beat Texas in the first round before falling to eventual national runner-up Illinois.

The team returned for 2006 as a #5 seed but was upset in the first round by former Big Sky Conference rival Montana.

[12] On November 26, 2010, the Nevada Wolf Pack upset Boise State in a historic win at Mackay Stadium.

In one round of overtime and 2 missed field goals by the Broncos, one at the end of regulation and one in overtime, Nevada Wolf Pack freshman kicker Anthony Martinez kicked a field goal to put Nevada on top for a final of 34–31.

Mackay Stadium has played home to the women's soccer team since 2002 with occasional home matches being played offsite at the Moana Sports Complex (the previous site of Moana Stadium) in Reno, Nevada.

[19] The 2023 Nevada soccer team tore apart previous home attendance records, averaging 829 fans per game.

They won the Pacific Collegiate Swim Conference in 1992 followed by the Big West championship five years in a row from 1996 to 2000 and the WAC title in 2007, 2008 and 2009.

[47] The volleyball team has qualified for the NCAA tournament five times in its history, all coming from at-large selections.

[53] The Wolf Pack's mascots are anthropomorphized wolves named Alphie, Wolfie Jr and Luna.