The 2006 Las Vegas Bowl was an NCAA

National Collegiate Athletic Association

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-sanctioned Division I post-season college football

College football

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 bowl game

Bowl game

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 between the Oregon Ducks

2006 Oregon Ducks football team

The 2006 Oregon Ducks football team represented the University of Oregon in college football's 2006 season. The team was coached by Mike Bellotti and played their home games in Autzen Stadium in Eugene, Oregon, United States....

 and the Brigham Young University Cougars

2006 BYU Cougars football team

The 2006 BYU Cougars football team represents Brigham Young University in the 2006 college football season. The Cougars won the Mountain West Conference championship outright with an 11-2 record , their first unbeaten conference play since 2001...

. The Las Vegas Bowl

Las Vegas Bowl

The Maaco Bowl Las Vegas is an NCAA-sanctioned Division I-A post-season college football bowl game that has been played annually at 40,000-seat Sam Boyd Stadium in Las Vegas, Nevada, U.S. since 1992. From 1992 to 1996, matchups featured the champion teams from the Big West and Mid-American...

 gets its first choice of bowl-eligible teams from the Mountain West Conference

Mountain West Conference

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 (MWC) and the fourth/fifth choice (alternating every year) of bowl-eligible teams from the Pacific-10 Conference (Pac-10). This bowl game was played on December 22, 2006 at 5 p.m. PST at 40,000-seat Sam Boyd Stadium

Sam Boyd Stadium

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 in Whitney, Nevada

Whitney, Nevada

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, USA where this bowl game has been played since 1992. It was broadcast on ESPN

ESPN

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 and ESPNHD. Since 2001, the game has featured a matchup of teams from the MWC and Pac-10.

Additional notes

• This was the Cougars' first bowl victory since defeating Kansas State in the 1997 Cotton Bowl Classic.
• Oregon wore their black-black home uniform with a unique logo-less helmet.

External links

• Official Las Vegas Bowl website