2007 Las Vegas Bowl

2007 Pioneer PureVision Las Vegas Bowl
Las Vegas Bowl logo
1234 Total
UCLA 31003 16
BYU 31400 17
DateDecember 22, 2007
Season2007
StadiumSam Boyd Stadium
LocationWhitney, Nevada
MVPWR Austin Collie, BYU
FavoriteBYU by 6 [1]
RefereeEd Kierce (C-USA)
Attendance40,712
PayoutUS$1,000,000 per team[2]
United States TV coverage
NetworkESPN
AnnouncersBrad Nessler, Bob Griese, Paul Maguire[1]
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The 2007 Pioneer PureVision Las Vegas Bowl was an NCAA-sanctioned Division I post-season college football bowl game between the UCLA Bruins and the Brigham Young University Cougars. The game was played on December 22, 2007, starting at 5 p.m. PST at 40,000-seat Sam Boyd Stadium in Whitney, Nevada, where the bowl has been played since 1992. It was televised on ESPN.

Starting in 2001, the Las Vegas Bowl featured a matchup of teams from the Mountain West Conference (MWC) and Pacific-10 Conference (Pac-10), with organizers having first choice of bowl-eligible teams from the MWC, and the fourth or fifth choice (alternating annually) of bowl-eligible teams from the Pac-10.

  1. ^ a b Megargee, Steve (December 19, 2007). "Las Vegas Bowl: BYU vs. UCLA". Rivals.com. Archived from the original on December 25, 2007. Retrieved December 26, 2007.
  2. ^ "ncaafootball.com - Bowl Schedules/Results". Archived from the original on August 3, 2007. Retrieved September 19, 2009.