Best and Worst of Bowl Season

Worst performance by a future Pac-12 member: Utah, which will join the conference in 2011, got pounded 26-3 by Boise State in the MAACO Las Vegas Bowl. The Broncos outgained the Utes 543 yards to 200. The Utes had three fumbles.

Worst team performance: Utah. Yes, the Utes played a Top 10 team, but they were a Top 10 team themselves once upon a time this season. Here are the ugly stats from their 26-3 loss to Boise State in the MAACO Bowl Las Vegas: eight first downs, 200 total yards, 2-of-13 on third down, 10 penalties and three turnovers. The three points scored were also the fewest of any bowl team. Not the greatest of days for a team that had won nine straight bowl games.

Worst quarter: UTEP had minus-5 total yards in the first quarter and trailed 17-3 after that first period en route to a 52-24 loss to BYU in the New Mexico Bowl.