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2008 Las Vegas Bowl

2008 Pioneer Las Vegas Bowl
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1 2 3 4 Total
BYU 0 7 7 7 21
Arizona 7 3 14 7 31
Date December 20, 2008
Season 2008
Stadium Sam Boyd Stadium
Location Whitney, Nevada
MVP QB Willie Tuitama, Arizona
National anthem David Hasselhoff
Attendance 40,047
Payout US$1,000,000 per team
United States TV coverage
Network ESPN
Announcers Mike Patrick, Todd Blackledge, Holly Rowe
Nielsen ratings 2.2
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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 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.


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