Mistake-prone OSU blown
away in windy Vegas
THE TEMPEST BLOWING through Sam Boyd Stadium, with gusts to around 45 mph, was
nothing compared to the discord surrounding Oregon State in the first half. The
sheer volume of penalties, missed tackles and mistakes by the orange and black
were hard to fathom. And, in the 44-20 loss to No. 14 BYU, even harder to
stomach.
OSU actually started well in this game. Stephen Paea and Brennan Olander had two
early monster plays, tackling BYU running backs for consecutive five yard
losses. OSU, with the wind and a short field, then took it in on their second
possession for a 7-0 lead. Jacquizz Rodgers and James Rodgers ripped off huge
chunks of green and Sean Canfield snuck it in to put the Beavs on the board ...
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OSU’s bowl win streak
left blowing in the wind
If it could go wrong, Oregon State found a way to do it exactly that way Tuesday
night in a 44-20 loss to BYU in the Las Vegas Bowl.
It meant an inglorious end to the season and snipped the five-game winning
streak in bowls for the 16th-ranked Beavers, who finished 8-5 with consecutive
defeats to Oregon and the 15th-ranked Cougars (11-2). That’s the first time
since 1999 that OSU has lost the Civil War and its bowl game ...
more from The Register Guard.
Beavers blown away in the
desert
The stiffest opposition BYU received for much of Tuesday night might have been
the 50-mph wind gusts it faced in the first quarter.
The Cougars dominated on both sides of the ball and rolled to a 44-20 victory
over the Beavers in the Las Vegas Bowl ...
more from The Register Guard |
Notebook
Beavers lose – badly – in
Vegas
Oregon State’s performance at the Maaco Las Vegas Bowl Tuesday night will be one
Beaver Nation will want to forget rather quickly.
Brigham Young spotted OSU seven points, then scored 37 in a row en route to a
44-20 shellacking at Sam Boyd Stadium ...
more from The Portland Tribune.
Beavers must learn from
loss
This is one of those situations when the Oregon State football team must turn
its latest setback into a positive.
That's all that matters in the aftermath of Tuesday's Las Vegas Bowl ...
more from The Gazette Times |
Sideline report
Disappointing ending for
Beavers
This is unknown territory for the Oregon State football team.
The Beavers ended the season with a thud, losing the last two games ...
more from The Gazette Times |
Report card
Brigham Young handles
huge wind better than Beavers
Oregon State has played games this season in desert-warm weather in Arizona, and
freezing temperatures in Pullman, Wash.
But nothing could have prepared the Beavers for the stiff, steady wind they
played in Tuesday at Sam Boyd Stadium, where Brigham Young pasted them 44-20 in
the MAACO Bowl ...
more from The Oregonian |
Pankey discusses loss
What happens in Vegas
stays in Vegas?
If only it were true, that what happens in Las Vegas stays in Las Vegas.
For Oregon State, the stench of a surprising no-show in the windy, freezing-cold
MAACO Bowl Tuesday night will linger like a pile of garbage that hasn’t been
picked up for weeks ...
more from The Oregonian |
Quizz's first fumble
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| From a
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Cougar Curve: BYU 44 Oregon
State 20
The game wasn’t nearly as close as most expected as the Cougars dominated
and romped over the Beavers in a matchup that wasn’t really close. Grades are in
and as many can well imagine those grades are very high across the board ...
more from TotalBlueSports.com.
Bottling up the Beavers
proved Cougars' finest hour
BYU isn't supposed to do these bowl game deals in style.
But Tuesday night, the Cougars painted one for the ages in the Maaco Bowl Las
Vegas ...
more from The Desert News.
Cougars manage Vegas
blowout
In the self-proclaimed City of Entertainment — also known as, at least on
Tuesday night, the Windy City — No. 15 BYU put on a dazzling show on a national
stage against a Pac-10 opponent, in the Maaco Bowl Las Vegas.
The Cougar offense, defense and special teams dominated No. 16 Oregon State and
cruised to a 44-20 victory on a blustery evening at Sam Boyd Stadium ...
more from The Desert News |
Notebook
Fumble took any Beaver
momentum
It was the play of the game and it cost No. 16 ranked Oregon State any and all
early momentum it ever had in a loss to No. 15 BYU on Tuesday in the Maaco Bowl
Las Vegas on Tuesday.
Sean Canfield, the Pac-10's best quarterback, threw a lateral pass to the one of
the league's top running backs, sophomore Jacquizz Rodgers, with the score tied
at 7-7 late in the first quarter ...
more from The Desert News |
Notebook
Cougars' defense rises up
Every coach and player involved in BYU's convincing win over Oregon State in the
Maaco Bowl Las Vegas on Tuesday at Sam Boyd Stadium pointed to one play that
turned the game around.
Even after the Cougars marched 85 yards into the wicked wind to tie the game
7-7, the game really turned BYU's way for good when Beaver back Jacquizz Rodgers
dropped a lateral, and Cougar linebacker Matt Bauman picked up the loose ball
and rambled 34 yards to put BYU ahead for good ...
more from The Desert News.
Cougs conquer Sin City again,
rout Beavers in Vegas Bowl
The BYU Cougars rule Sin City once again.
Overcoming an early deficit and horrendous playing conditions, the No. 15
Cougars mauled 16th-ranked Oregon State 44-20 Tuesday night in the Las Vegas
Bowl.
In their most impressive performance since the season-opening victory over
Oklahoma, BYU scored 37 unanswered points after spotting the Beavers a 7-0
first-quarter lead. In doing so, the Cougars reclaimed their mantle as Las Vegas
Bowl kings. BYU lost to Arizona 31-21 in last year's game at Sam Boyd Stadium
... more from The Salt
Lake City Tribune |
Notebook
Hall writes happier ending to
Cougar career
Max Hall's parting shot included mistake-free passing, impressive toughness and
some insight into his life as a BYU quarterback.
If Hall or anyone else could have scripted how he wanted to be remembered,
Tuesday's Las Vegas Bowl would come pretty close, according to coach Bronco
Mendenhall ... more from
The Salt Lake City Tribune.
BYU blows past overmatched OSU
Having started the 2009 college football season with an eye-opening upset of
Oklahoma, the BYU Cougars finished it Tuesday night with another performance
they hope will garner the national attention and respect they and their
conference mates so desperately seek.
Matched in the Las Vegas Bowl against a nationally ranked opponent for the first
time in five visits to their home away from home, the No. 15 Cougars dominated
No. 16 Oregon State of the big, bad Pac-10 44-20 in front of 40,018 windblown
and shivering fans at Sam Boyd Stadium ...
more from The Salt Lake
City Tribune |
Mendenhall dodges emotional ties to defeat OSU
Beavers beaten at their own game by Cougars
The Oregon State Beavers pride themselves on being a hardy bunch. They routinely
play in rain, wind and more rain in Corvallis, Ore. But the elements -- and a
fired-up bunch of BYU Cougars -- proved too much to overcome Tuesday night in
the Las Vegas Bowl.
The No. 16 Beavers, just four points shy last month from playing in the Rose
Bowl, got their doors blown off by 15th-ranked BYU in a 44-20 loss at Sam Boyd
Stadium ... more from The
Salt Lake City Tribune |
Seniors go out in style
BYU had no intention of blowing
Vegas Bowl
The finger of God stirred the bowl here Tuesday night. Not in any
literal-interpretative sense. Just in an F5 tornado sense.
On account of that, this wasn't the same old Las Vegas Bowl. It wasn't the Maaco
Bowl. Wasn't even the Maaco Bowl Las Vegas ...
more from The Salt Lake
City Tribune.
Drive into wind sends Cougars
sailing
Officially, the BYU Cougars just tied the game with a touchdown late in the
first quarter Tuesday night.
In reality, they may have won the Las Vegas Bowl right then and there.
By driving 84 yards for a touchdown against a gale-force wind and an aggressive
defense, the Cougars permanently altered the game on their way to a 44-20
victory over Oregon State ...
more from The Salt Lake
City Tribune.
BYU demolishes Oregon State in
Vegas Bowl, 44-20
Sick of practicing against each other, sick of preparing for Oregon State, sick
of hearing how they had failed in last year’s trip to Las Vegas, the BYU
football team wasn’t going to let a little thing like 55 mile-per-hour wind
gusts slow them down.
The seniors simply wouldn’t allow it ...
more from the Daily Herald |
Notebook
Hall's final game grittiness
helps BYU finish strong
It still doesn't make sense that Max Hall was in the game, when the rules would
suggest he should have been on the sideline with about nine minutes left in the
third quarter.
A couple of athletic trainers hurried out to check on him Tuesday, which should
have meant that he had to take at least one play off ...
more from the Daily Herald.
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Beavers a bust
Max Hall became a regular at the Las Vegas Bowl, and his final performance was
his best.
The senior quarterback threw for 192 yards and three touchdowns in the only bowl
game he knows, leading No. 15 BYU past No. 16 Oregon State 44-20 on Tuesday
night ...
more from The Associated Press.
Hall, BYU win third Las
Vegas Bowl in five years
BYU coach Bronco Mendenhall found it hard to sum up the career and legacy of
senior quarterback Max Hall in the week leading up to the 2009 MAACO Bowl Las
Vegas.
Sure, Hall held the school’s all-time record for victories by a quarterback with
31 and directed the Cougars to three straight 10-win seasons. But Mendenhall
wasn’t able to select a single definitive performance from Hall ...
more from The Las Vegas Sun |
Notebook
Oregon State, senior QB
struggle with wind in bowl loss
This is not how quarterback Sean Canfield pictured the end of his Oregon State
football career.
The 6-foot-4, 215-pound lefty entered the MAACO Bowl Las Vegas on Tuesday at Sam
Boyd Stadium looking to cap one of the most prolific passing seasons in Oregon
State history by leading the Beavers to their sixth straight bowl victory ...
more from The Las Vegas Sun.
BYU wins 2009 MAACO Bowl
Las Vegas in dominating fashion
What was supposed to be one of the most competitive bowl games of the year
turned out to be a rout Tuesday night at Sam Boyd Stadium.
BYU easily took care of Oregon State in the 2009 MAACO Bowl Las Vegas, 44-20 ...
more from The Las Vegas Sun.
BYU breezes to victory
If a year ago, Brigham Young's football team showed up disinterested, on Tuesday
night, the Cougars were more than ready to play.
If a year ago, 10 victories were a reason for disappointment, this time, 11 wins
are something for BYU to cherish. ...
more
from The Las Vegas Review Journal |
How they scored
BYU adjusts to gusts in
blowout
They made a movie about wind in the early 1990s, about a couple of experienced
sailors determined to win the America's Cup yacht race.
It's safe to say some of the blustery conditions on the big screen had nothing
on those whipping through Sam Boyd Stadium on Tuesday evening ...
more from The Las Vegas Review Journal.
Oregon State Blown Away
by BYU
As much as this game will be remembered for their opponent’s horrific
performance, BYU deserves to be remembered just as much for the way they played
tonight. The Cougars may have given up a couple of touchdowns in garbage time,
but otherwise, the defense dominated one of the more prolific scoring offenses
in the nation and held the Rodgers’ to less than one hundred collective yards.
What more can be said about Oregon State? Clearly, the Beavers had no interest
in playing another game of football in the year 2009. There is no way this team
can claim to have played their hardest—the same team who nearly took down Oregon
at Autzen Stadium does not go to Las Vegas and get obliterated by a Mountain
West team, even one as talented as the men from Provo ...
more from CollegeFootballNews.com.
Instant Analysis - BYU
thumps the Beavers
It's not a stunner that BYU beat Oregon State in the Las Vegas Bowl, but no one
could've expected a 44-20 blowout that wasn't even that close. The CFN writers
give their thoughts on the early shocker of the bowl season, and the big moment
for the Mountain West (and the big dud for the Pac 10) ...
more from CFN.
Instant analysis: BYU 44,
Oregon State 20 (Pac-10 view)
This one goes to the Mountain West Conference. Big.
Nothing went right for Oregon State in a 44-20 loss to a BYU team that, after a
slow start, executed to perfection ...
more from ESPN.
Instant analysis: BYU 44,
Oregon State 20 (BYU view)
BYU dominated Oregon State and kept the Mountain West’s 2009 bowl winning streak
alive. The Mountain West, which is making a push for automatic qualification in
two years, is 2-0 in its bowl games with three remaining.
The Cougars, who were playing in the MAACO Bowl Las Vegas for the fifth
consecutive season, started slowly but turned it on midway through the first
quarter and couldn't be stopped ...
more from ESPN.