{"id":3079,"date":"2008-12-20T00:11:00","date_gmt":"2008-12-20T05:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2008\/12\/las-vegas-bowlbyu-arizona-preview\/"},"modified":"2008-12-20T00:11:00","modified_gmt":"2008-12-20T05:11:00","slug":"las-vegas-bowlbyu-arizona-preview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2008\/12\/las-vegas-bowlbyu-arizona-preview\/","title":{"rendered":"Las Vegas Bowl:BYU-Arizona Preview"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n
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Two teams that reside near the desert will show up in the desert December 20 for the annual Las Vegas Bowl. BYU and Arizona<\/st1:place><\/st1:State> will both be gunning for a victory at Sam Boyd Stadium in a game that pits the 10-2 Cougars against the 7-5 Wildcats. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Oddsmakers currently have the Wildcats listed as 3-point favorites versus the Cougars, while the game’s total is sitting at 60. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
BYU was crushed 48-24 by Utah<\/st1:place><\/st1:State> in Week 13, as 7-point underdogs. The 72 points sailed OVER the posted total of 55. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Harvey Unga carries the ball 15 times for 116 yards with two touchdowns in the loss. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Willie Tuitama threw two touchdown passes in leading Arizona<\/st1:place><\/st1:State> to a 31-10 victory over Arizona<\/st1:PlaceName> State<\/st1:PlaceType><\/st1:place> in their regular-season finale. Arizona<\/st1:place><\/st1:State> covered the 10.5-point spread, while the 41 points went UNDER the posted total of 49. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Tuitama completed 24-of-37 pass attempts for 270 yards for Arizona<\/st1:place><\/st1:State>. Nic Grigsby ran for 112 yards off 21 carries with one TD in the win. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Team records:
BYU: 10-2 SU, 3-8 ATS
Arizona: 7-5 SU, 7-5 ATS <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
BYU most recently:
When playing in December are 4-6
When playing on turf are 8-2
After outgaining opponent are 8-2
When playing outside the conference are 8-2<\/p>\n

Arizona most recently:
When playing in December are 3-1
When playing on turf are 5-5
After outgaining opponent are 5-5
When playing outside the conference are 5-5<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n

A few trends to consider:
BYU is 20-2 SU in its last 22 games
The total has gone OVER in 4 of BYU’s last 5 games
BYU is 1-7 ATS in its last 8 games
Arizona<\/st1:place><\/st1:State> is 11-5 ATS in its last 16 games <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n

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Two teams that reside near the desert will show up in the desert December 20 for the annual Las Vegas Bowl. BYU and Arizona will both be gunning for a victory at Sam Boyd Stadium in a game that pits the 10-2 Cougars against the 7-5 Wildcats. Oddsmakers currently have the Wildcats listed as 3-point … Continue reading Las Vegas Bowl:BYU-Arizona Preview<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3079","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3079","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3079"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3079\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}