HOW THEY SCORED
Football
No. 8 Boise State (12-1) beat Arizona State (6-7) in front of about 35,000 tonight at the MAACO Bowl Las Vegas at Sam Boyd Stadium.
GAME DAY
Bowl results often come down to which is the more motivated team: the side that sees the game as a reward, compared with the one that wishes it was playing somewhere and someone else
It was a few seconds past 5 p.m. Monday in the Rush Tower lobby of the Golden Nugget downtown. Boise State football coach Chris Petersen and his Arizona State counterpart, the soon-to-be-unemployed Dennis Erickson, were smiling for the traditional photo one always sees before bowl games, the one with the team helmets and the trophy in the foreground. At least this time, the showgirls stayed home.
The Las Vegas Bowl, now in its 20th year, has evolved from a means to plug slow visitation to a valuable week on the city’s special events calendar.
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