2008 Las Vegas Bowl
| 2008 Pioneer Las Vegas Bowl | |||||||||||||||||||
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| Date | December 20, 2008 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Season | 2008 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Stadium | Sam Boyd Stadium | ||||||||||||||||||
| Location | Whitney, Nevada | ||||||||||||||||||
| MVP | QB Willie Tuitama, Arizona | ||||||||||||||||||
| National anthem | David Hasselhoff[1] | ||||||||||||||||||
| Attendance | 40,047[2] | ||||||||||||||||||
| Payout | US$1,000,000 per team[3] | ||||||||||||||||||
| United States TV coverage | |||||||||||||||||||
| Network | ESPN | ||||||||||||||||||
| Announcers | Mike Patrick, Todd Blackledge, Holly Rowe | ||||||||||||||||||
| Nielsen ratings | 2.2 | ||||||||||||||||||
The 2008 Pioneer Las Vegas Bowl was an NCAA-sanctioned Division I FBS post-season college football bowl game between the Arizona Wildcats, the fifth pick from the Pacific-10 Conference and the BYU Cougars, third place overall in the Mountain West Conference. This bowl game was played on December 20, 2008 at 5 p.m. PST at 40,000-seat off campus Sam Boyd Stadium of the University of Nevada, Las Vegas in Whitney, Nevada[4] and broadcast on ESPN. Since 2001, the game has featured a matchup of teams from the MWC and Pac-10. The announcers were Mike Patrick and Todd Blackledge with the sideline reporting by Holly Rowe. The Wildcats stunned the 16th ranked Cougars in the coldest Las Vegas Bowl in history, 31-21.
Scoring summary
| Scoring Play | Score | ||
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| 1st Quarter | |||
| Arizona - Nic Grigsby 1-yard TD run (Jason Bondzio kick), 6:23 | Arizona 7-0 | ||
| 2nd Quarter | |||
| Arizona - Bondzio 31-yard FG, 9:21 | Arizona 10-0 | ||
| BYU - Harvey Unga 1-yard TD run (Mitch Payne kick), 6:50 | Arizona 10-7 | ||
| 3rd Quarter | |||
| BYU - Andrew George 1-yard TD pass from Max Hall (Payne kick), 11:21 | BYU 14-10 | ||
| Arizona - Delashaun Dean 37-yard TD pass from Willie Tuitama (Bondzio kick), 7:07 | Arizona 17-14 | ||
| Arizona - Chris Gronkowski 24-yard TD pass from Tuitama (Bondzio kick), :25 | Arizona 24-14 | ||
| 4th Quarter | |||
| Arizona - Tuitama 6-yard TD run (Bondzio kick), 6:09 | Arizona 31-14 | ||
| BYU - Hall 1-yard TD run (Payne kick), 3:38 | Arizona 31-21 | ||
References
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