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Where Have We Seen This Before?: Boise State, UNLV In Mountain West Football Championship Game Friday

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UNLV Athletic Director Erick Harper at Boise State a year ago. Photo credit: LVSportsBiz.com

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By Alan Snel, LVSportsBiz.com Publisher-Writer

LAS VEGAS, Nevada — Here we go again.

UNLV will seek the Mountain West Conference football championship in Boise, Idaho Friday at 5 PM.

It’s just like a year ago when the powerful MWC Broncos defeated the UNLV Rebels in what turned out to be as Barry Odom’s last game as head coach.

Former UNLV coach Barry Odom from last year’s title game in Boise.

How did we get here?

Well, UNLV and Boise State were among four teams locked at the top of the Mountain West with 6-2 conference records along with San Diego State and New Mexico.

Conference officials used four polls to spit out an average ranking and UNLV and Boise State finished, one and two.But then the Mountain West used head-to-head to determine home field and because Boise State defeated UNLV during the regular season, Friday’s Broncos-Rebels game will be played at Albertsons Stadium and its blue turf.

 

This is the third straight year that Boise State and UNLV have played in the MWC title game. The Broncos have won both championship showdowns.

 

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Alan Snel

Alan Snel brings decades of sports-business reporting experience to LVSportsBiz.com. Snel covered the business side of sports for the South Florida (Fort Lauderdale) Sun-Sentinel, the Tampa Tribune and Las Vegas Review-Journal. As a city hall beat reporter, Snel also covered stadium deals in Denver and Seattle. In 2000, Snel launched a sport-business website for FoxSports.com called FoxSportsBiz.com. After reporting sports-business for the RJ, Snel wrote hard-hitting stories on the Raiders stadium for the Desert Companion magazine in Las Vegas and The Nevada Independent. Snel is also one of the top bicycle advocates in the country.

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