With the college football bowl matchups set to be announced in 2 ½ weeks, various media outlets are stepping up their predictions the Royal Purple Las Vegas Bowl, which is scheduled for Sam Boyd Stadium on Dec. 19.
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Last year, it was the Big 12 Conference. Now it seems certain the Pac-12 will be left out when the four-team playoff field is assembled.
Mike Pritchard will share his emotions with the public as part of his past plays itself out on TV tonight. He will be at a viewing party beginning at 5 p.m. at Hi Scores Bar-Arcade in Henderson for the newest “30 for 30,” ESPN’s outstanding documentary series.
Miami solved part of its problem Sunday, and that was firing coach Al Golden. But he wasn’t the Hurricanes’ entire problem.
The Las Vegas Bowl likely will get Boise State or Colorado State out of the Mountain West, a team that should be ranked at the time of the Dec. 20 kickoff. The field is wide open in the Pac-12 Conference.
It’s the first year of the College Football Playoff, and the effects of the new system on the bowls remain to be seen. But the Las Vegas Bowl is in good shape to survive, officials say.
When Boise State played in last year’s MAACO Bowl Las Vegas, the 10th-ranked Broncos were the highest-rated team to appear in the local game.
Instead of representing her bowl game Saturday in Provo, Utah, where potential invitees Utah and Brigham Young will meet, MAACO Bowl Las Vegas executive director Tina Kunzer-Murphy will attend alma mater UNLV’s season finale against San Diego State at Sam Boyd Stadium.
The national glare on college football is its usual powerful November self, what with more BCS updates than holiday sales and those in South Bend buying out the town’s supply of toilet paper to wrap around Charlie Weis’ house and trees and car and anything else connected with the besieged and yet handsomely compensated Notre Dame coach.
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