LVB Media Guide 2018.indd 1 12/10/18 5:25 PM BOWL MEDIA GUIDE TABLE OF CONTENTS Las Vegas Bowl Committee 1 Las Vegas Bowl Quick Facts 1 Las Vegas Bowl Game Notes 2-4 Las Vegas Bowl Timeline 5 Las Vegas Bowl Contacts 6 Broadcast Information 7 2018 LAS VEGAS BOWL COMMITTEE Bowl Week Schedule of Events 8 Executive Director: Derrick Hill Media Advisories 9-15 John Saccenti Patrick Hughes Gameday Timeline 16 President: Herb Hunter Media Guidelines 17 Rob Dondero Steve Keith Media Information 18-19 Francisco Aguilar Jesse Leeds Media Parking Map 20 D.J. Allen Jim Livengood Stadium & Press Box Layout 21 Branan Allison Don Logan Arizona State Coaching Staff 22 Lawrence Barnard Jennifer Logan Arizona State Numerical Roster 23 Danielle Bisterfeldt Napoleon McCallum Fresno State Coaching Staff 24 Tony Bonnici Kerry McGonigal Fresno State Numerical Roster 25 Chad Brown Michael Mack Tentative Depth Charts 26 Kevin Camper Joe Micatrotto Jr. Pronunciation Guide 27 Jason Cheney Joe Murphy Sam Boyd Stadium 28 Rick Cox Brent Musburger Las Vegas Bowl Hall of Fame 29-30 John Dalrymple Tim O’Reilly LAS VEGAS BOWL RECORD BOOK Julian Dugas Susan Pitz All-Time Results/Title Sponsors/MVPs 31 Cliff Findlay Rossi Ralenkotter Individual Records 32-34 Justin Findlay Mike Rowland Team Records 35-37 Robby Findlay George Smith The Last Time... 38 Heather George Kristi Staab Game Recaps 39-63 Michael Goldsmith Steve Stallworth This is Las Vegas 64 John Guedry Jeff Victor Dan Hanneke Thomas Wagner Tim Herbst Melissa Warren @lasvegasbowl | #MMLVBowl BOWL QUICK FACTS Date: Saturday, Dec. 15, 2018 Kickoff: 12:36 p.m. PST Matchup: Fresno State (Mountain West) Arizona State (Pac-12) Television: ABC & WatchESPN Radio: GameDayRadio Location: Las Vegas (Pop. 2 million/Elevation 2,100 feet) Facility: Sam Boyd Stadium (Opened 1971) Capacity: 38,500 for bowl game Surface: Artificial (SPRINTURF, installed 2015) Press Box Phone: (702) 895-1248 2017 Result: Boise State 38, Oregon 28 First Result: Bowling Green 35, Nevada 34 in 1992 LAS VEGAS BOWL Official Website: www.lvbowl.com ESPN EVENTS (702) 732-3912 Media Relations Mgr.: Mark Wallington (702) 528-6291 John Saccenti, Executive Director Media Hotel: Hard Rock Hotel (702) 693-5000 Melissa Meacham, Associate Executive Director Credential Pickup: Hard Rock Hotel in Room 30104 on Paulette Rutledge, Office Manager/Ticketing ground floor of the Paradise Tower. J.J. Jones, Events Coordinator Wednesday – 2:00-4:00 pm Jason Walter, Operations Assistant Thursday – 3:00-6:00 pm Friday – 6:00-11:00 pm Mark Wallington, Manager of Media Relations Jeffrey Seals, Assistant Manager of Media Relations MITSUBISHI MOTORS LAS VEGAS BOWL 2018 MEDIA GUIDE BOWL GAME NOTES NEW TITLE SPONSOR Another sellout in 2013 saw a crowd of 42,178 fans and the 2015 game Bowl organizers announced in July that world-renowned brand Mitsubishi made it eight sellouts in the last 13 years with the second-largest gathering Motors signed on as the bowl’s new title sponsor for the next two years. in Las Vegas Bowl, stadium and state history (42,213). This marks the first time Mitsubishi Motors North America, Inc. (MMNA) has been a title sponsor for a college football bowl game. MMNA sells se- ECONOMIC IMPACT dans and crossovers/SUVs through a network of approximately 360 deal- How important is having a highly attended college football game to the ers and recently launched the all-new Eclipse Cross CUV and the plug-in Southern Nevada area? In research courtesy of the Las Vegas Conven- hybrid electric Outlander PHEV. For additional information on all Mitsubishi tion and Visitors Authority, the 2017 Bowl Week provided an estimated vehicles sold in the US, please visit media.mitsubishicars.com. $27.4 million in economic impact courtesy of 21,100 out-of-town visitors. In its first quarter-century-plus of existence, the bowl attracted more than THE TEAMS 515,000 out-of-town visitors and pumped over $340 million into the local Mitsubishi Motors Las Vegas Bowl XXVII will see Ari- economy. zona State University (7-5 Overall/5-4 Pac 12 South Division) and conference champion No. 21 Fresno CONFERENCE TIE-INS State University (11-2/7-1 Mountain West West Divi- ESPN Events announced in summer of 2013 that it had sion) meet each other on the football field for only the extended its contract with both the Pac-12 and Mountain fourth time ever and first time in 77 years on Decem- West conferences for an additional five years (2014-19). ber 15 at Sam Boyd Stadium. The game is scheduled through next year to match the top selection/champion from the MW against the No. 6 THE MATCHUP choice from the Pac-12. Since 2000, the only times that Someone is guaranteed to win its first Mitsubishi Mo- a Pac-12 team has not played in the bowl came in 2010 tors Las Vegas Bowl as the 27th edition of the event features two teams and 2016 when the league did not qualify enough teams that have combined for a 0-3 record in this game. ASU, which lost its only and an at-large selection was used. Since the MW previous trip to Las Vegas in 2011, is playing in the bowl under first-year opened for business in 1999, the only time it has not head coach Herm Edwards. Fresno State, meanwhile, dropped both of its supplied a team was 2015 when BYU made a special previous visits as members of two different conferences (vs. Utah while contractual appearance and faced in-state rival Utah. repping the WAC in 1999 and vs. USC in 2013 to cap its second year in the Mountain West). The Bulldogs, led by second-year head coach Jeff Ted- TELEVISION ford, are 5-6 overall at Sam Boyd Stadium when you add in their games vs. Longtime ESPN personality and College GameDay host the hometown Rebels, including downing UNLV 48-3 back on November Rece Davis will handle play-by-play here for the fourth time 3. The Sun Devils and Bulldogs have played each other just thrice before in his career (2017, 2013, 2009) while Kirk Herbstreit, who and ASU took all of the games played nearly eight decades ago (1931, ’33 is also the analyst for the Saturday Night Football series on and ’41). ABC, returns for his fifth Mitsubishi Motors Las Vegas Bowl overall, which trails only Mike Gottfried’s 10 for the most ever. Finally, the team’s field re- GAME, DATE & TIME porter will be ESPN College Gameday reporter Tom Rinaldi who has done Kickoff is scheduled to take place at 12:36 p.m. PT (with a more of these games from the sidelines – four – than anyone in history. 5-minute TV slide possible) on Saturday, December 15, which is the earliest Mitsubishi Motors Las Vegas Bowl date RADIO since going on the 14th in 1995 when Toledo downed Ne- The game will also be broadcast on the GameDayRadio national radio vada 40-37 in the first overtime game in FBS history. This network. Oklahoma State football play-by-play announcer Dave Hunziker will mark the 12th Saturday kickoff in Mitsubishi Motors Las makes his debut at Sam Boyd Stadium along with TCU analyst Landry Vegas Bowl history and the seventh straight. It will also be the Burdine and sideline reporter Melanie Newman. 12th day game in the event’s history and the seventh straight. LAS VEGAS BOWL FIRSTS 27TH YEAR The Mitsubishi Motors Las Vegas Bowl has been home to some college The Mitsubishi Motors Las Vegas Bowl turns 27 in 2018 and is currently the football firsts. In 1995, Toledo and Nevada played in what was the first- 16th-oldest bowl in existence. There are 30 defunct bowls that did not last ever overtime game on the Division I FBS level. The existing overtime rules as long as 20 years, just one that did last at least that long and there are 23 were put into effect only for bowl games that season and the Rockets and current bowls that are younger than the Mitsubishi Motors Las Vegas Bowl. Wolf Pack were the only teams that needed the extra time in the post- season. OT became standard for all college football games the very next HOME TEAM season. In 2002, Katie Hnida of New Mexico became the first woman to Using a rotating basis between the two partner conferences, Arizona State play in a FBS-level game when she entered in the first quarter to attempt (West Sideline and Locker Room) will serve as the visiting team while Fres- an extra point. The attempt, which was low, was blocked by UCLA during no State (East Sideline and Locker Room) will be the home team. the Bruins’ 27-13 victory. Also, 2011’s game featured three scoring plays 98 yards or longer and was believed to be the first bowl game in history that TICKETS included a kickoff return for a touchdown to start each half (Boise State’s Public tickets to this year’s game range from $45-$120. Doug Martin opened the game with a 100-yard kickoff return while Arizona State’s Rashad Ross began the second half with a 98-yard KOR for a TD). EIGHT SELLOUTS IN LAST 14 YEARS The 2016 game saw San Diego State’s Donnel Pumphrey become the Tickets sold out for the Las Vegas Bowl for six consecutive games (2005- rushing king of college football when he passed Ron Dayne’s to finish with 10) until that streak was halted in 2011 when 35,720 were in attendance.