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Published Sunday, Dec. 7, 2008 | 3:51 p.m.
Updated Sunday, Dec. 7, 2008 | 4 p.m.
For the fourth consecutive year, BYU (10-2 overall, 6-2 MWC) will represent the Mountain West Conference in the Pioneer Las Vegas Bowl at Sam Boyd Stadium. It was announced Sunday afternoon that the Cougars will face Arizona (7-5, 5-4) from the Pac-10.
The Wildcats clinched a winning regular season record Saturday night with a 31-10 victory over in-state rival Arizona State.
The matchup will pit two offenses against each other which rank in the top 20 in the FBS ranks. Arizona ranks 16th with 37.1 ppg, while BYU is 19th at 35.3.
This will mark the 22nd meeting between the two programs, but the first time in a bowl game. The last two meetings included a 16-13 Arizona victory in Tucson to open the 2006 season, then a 20-7 BYU triumph in Provo a year later.
The Las Vegas Bowl committee announced last week that the game is already sold out, but several Arizona fans now have added incentive to come to Sin City for the weekend. The Las Vegas Bowl will kick off at 5 p.m. while the Wildcats' men's basketball squad takes on UNLV earlier that afternoon in the Thomas & Mack Center.
this is a good matchup i purchased a ticket a few weeks ago and it will (hopefully) be a high scoring affair.
With byu getting the nod, again, for the LV bowl, I wonder.....what kind of security will be in place to stop the byu fans from storming the field again if they win. After all, tom holmoe (byu president) says that it is unsportsmanlike to do so when UNLV wins the MWC basketball tourney right? Let me see here, byu wins...it's ok, byu loses...not ok. And because he has whined like a little girl to the MWC the last two years, the tourney saw bulked up security last season and now even more previsions are planned this year to quell any Rebel fan celebration because byu (as a whole) is a bunch of sore losers. We know that the president, their media and byu fans are hypocrytes but how deep does it go? If you need further evidence, don't forget Rafael Araujo's knockout of Jerel Blassingame in 2004 at the T&M. The next morning the paper captured the image perfectly....Araujo(the tatoo wielding ape, which is against the byu code of conduct), swinging for the fences, had just connected, Blassingame's head flying back with the sweat exploding from his face. TV replay showed over and over the punch yet Araujo was not suspended and what's more disturbing, he was not even assessed a foul. Jerel had a concussion the rest of the season and if you recall, was never the same player again. I looked at the coverage of the game on byu's site the next morning and wouldn't ya know it....NOT EVEN A MENTION of the Tyson like swing.
Rumor has it that T K-M is trying to sway Sarah Cummard from the UFC to head it's security team. The first call she'll make for an assistant, if she accepts....you guessed it...Ara-freaking-ujo.
Huh?
Did you need an explaination TGin or did you not know that that last part was sarcastic humor.