2006 Las Vegas Bowl

2006 Pioneer PureVision Las Vegas Bowl
Bowl Game
BYU Cougars Oregon Ducks (10–2) (7–5) 38 8 Head coach:  Bronco Mendenhall Head coach:  Mike Bellotti AP Coaches BCS 19 20 20 AP Coaches BCS N/A N/A N/A 1 2 3 4 Total Brigham Young University 0 17 7 14 38 University of Oregon 0 0 0 8 8
Date	December 21, 2006
Season	2006
Stadium	Sam Boyd Stadium
Location	Whitney, Nevada
MVP	TE Jonny Harline, BYU
Attendance	44,615
Payout	US$1,000,000 per team
United States TV coverage
Network	ESPN
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The 2006 Las Vegas Bowl was an NCAA-sanctioned Division I post-season college football bowl game between the Oregon Ducks and the Brigham Young University Cougars. The Las Vegas Bowl gets its first choice of bowl-eligible teams from the Mountain West Conference (MWC) and the fourth/fifth choice (alternating every year) of bowl-eligible teams from the Pacific-10 Conference (Pac-10). This bowl game was played on December 22, 2006 at 5 p.m. PST at 40,000-seat Sam Boyd Stadium in Whitney, Nevada, USA where this bowl game has been played since 1992. It was broadcast on ESPN and ESPNHD. Since 2001, the game has featured a matchup of teams from the MWC and Pac-10.

Additional notes

• This was the Cougars' first bowl victory since defeating Kansas State in the 1997 Cotton Bowl Classic.
• Oregon wore their black-black home uniform with a unique logo-less helmet.

External links

• Official Las Vegas Bowl website