The 2010 Maaco

MAACO

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 Bowl Las Vegas was an NCAA

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-sanctioned Division I FBS post-season college football

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 bowl game

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. The game was played Wednesday, December 22, 2010 at 5 p.m. PST at 40,000-seat Sam Boyd Stadium

Sam Boyd Stadium

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 near Las Vegas

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 and the broadcast was on ESPN

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. The game featured Utah

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 against Boise State

2010 Boise State Broncos football team

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Utah Utes

Utah was one of the teams participating in the 2010 bowl. The Utes entered the game with the longest current bowl winning streak at nine games and had never lost a bowl game under current head coach Kyle Wittingham. Utah entered the game with a 10–2 overall record and a #19 ranking in the BCS poll. The Utes had played in the Las Vegas bowl twice before, defeating Fresno State

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 17–16 in 1999

1999 Las Vegas Bowl

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 and beating USC

2001 USC Trojans football team

The 2001 USC Trojans football team represented the University of Southern California in the 2001 NCAA Division I-A college football season. It was Pete Carroll's first year as head coach....

 10–6 in 2001

2001 Las Vegas Bowl

The 2001 edition to the Las Vegas Bowl was the 10th edition of that annual game. It featured the USC Trojans, and the Utah Utes.The game was dominated by defense. Utah opened the scoring on a 3 yard touchdown run by Adam Tate, leading 7–0. They increased their lead to 10–0 in the second quarter,...

. The 1999 victory over Fresno State started the nine game bowl winning streak.

Boise State Broncos

Boise State was invited to the bowl after not enough Pac-10 teams were bowl-eligible to meet their contractual requirements. The #10 (BCS) Broncos entered the game with an 11–1 record, their only loss coming at Nevada on November 26; BSU split the WAC title with Nevada and Hawai'i. Before the Nevada game, they were in line for a possible at-large selection to a BCS bowl game. Even at 11-1, they were still eligible as an at-large selection but were not taken. The 2010 game marked BSU's first Maaco Bowl Las Vegas appearance. The Broncos entered with an all-time bowl record of 6–4; in their last bowl appearance, they defeated TCU in the 2010 Fiesta Bowl

2010 Fiesta Bowl

The 2010 Tostitos Fiesta Bowl game was a post-season college football bowl game between the #4 TCU Horned Frogs, champions of the Mountain West Conference, and the #6 Boise State Broncos, champions of the Western Athletic Conference. The game was played Monday, January 4, 2010, at University of...

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Scoring

Scoring Play	Score
1st Quarter
UTAH - Joe Phillips 44 yard kick, 0:56	UTAH 3–0
2nd Quarter
BSU - Doug Martin 84 yard run (Kyle Brotzman Kyle Brotzman Kyle Brotzman is an American football kicker for the Utah Blaze of the Arena Football League.-College career:He played for the Boise State Broncos. A former walk-on, he became the Broncos' starting kicker and punter....  kick), 8:39	BSU 7–3
BSU - Kyle Brotzman 29 yard kick, 2:27	BSU 10–3
BSU - Kellen Moore Kellen Moore Kellen Moore is an American football quarterback with the Boise State Broncos of the Mountain West Conference . Moore was born in Prosser, Washington and finished fourth out of four in voting for the 2010 Heisman Trophy....  25 yard pass to Tyler Shoemaker (Two-point conversion failed), 0:18	BSU 16–3
3rd Quarter
BSU - Kellen Moore 18 yard pass to Austin Pettis Austin Pettis Austin Pettis is an American football wide receiver for the St. Louis Rams of the National Football League. He was drafted in the 3rd round, 78th overall, in the 2011 NFL Draft.-Early years:...  (Kyle Brotzman kick), 8:18	BSU 23–3
4th Quarter
BSU - Kyle Brotzman 21 yard kick, 8:49	BSU 26–3

Statistics

Statistics	Utah	Boise State
First Downs	8	23
Total offense, plays-yards	53-198	77-543
Rushes-yards (net)	29-107	37-202
Passes, Comp-Att-Yds	10-24-91	29-40-341
Fumbles-Interceptions	3-0	3-1
Time of Possession	23:32	33:15

Game Notes

The two schools, which have been considered among the best non-AQ programs in the Football Bowl Subdivision, had previously met on six occasions. Boise State held a 4–2 advantage in prior matchups. The previous meeting between the two schools was a 36–3 win by the Broncos

2006 Boise State Broncos football team

The 2006 Boise State Broncos football team represented Boise State University in the 2006 college football season. The Broncos won the Western Athletic Conference championship with an undefeated 12–0 regular-season record , their second unbeaten regular season in the past three years...

 in 2006. That matchup was played in Salt Lake City. The Maaco Bowl Las Vegas marked the first time that the programs met in a bowl game.

Utah left the Mountain West Conference

Mountain West Conference

The Mountain West Conference , popularly known as the Mountain West, is the youngest of the college athletic conferences affiliated with the NCAA’s Division I FBS . The MWC officially began operations in July 1999...

 for the Pacific-12 Conference after the season, while Boise State joined the MWC from the Western Athletic Conference

Western Athletic Conference

The Western Athletic Conference is an American collegiate athletic conference, which was formed on July 27, 1962, making it the sixth oldest of the 11 college athletic conferences currently participating in the NCAA's Division I FBS...

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External links

• Official Maaco Bowl Las Vegas website